White Woman 1933 Carole Lombard & Charles Laughton
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2023
- White Woman is a 1933 American pre-Code drama film directed by Stuart Walker and starring Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton, Kent Taylor and Charles Bickford. The screenplay concerns a young widow who remarries and accompanies her husband to his remote jungle rubber plantation. It is based on the 1933 Broadway play Hangman's Whip, written by Norman Reilly Raine and Frank Butler.
One of hundreds of Paramount films held in limbo by Universal Studios, Universal gained ownership of Paramount features produced between 1929 and 1949. Paramount remade the film in 1939 as Island of Lost Men, with Anna May Wong, J. Carrol Naish and Broderick Crawford in the roles originated by Lombard, Laughton and Bickford. It was directed by Kurt Neumann.
Charles Laughton was one of the greatest actors that ever lived. I really appreciate you posting this film, I had never seen it before, and I have watched nothing but old Hollywood movies for 30+ years. It is always a treat to find a Carole Lombard film I haven't seen, as there are so few of her movies to see. Unfortunately her career was cut short by her tragic death in a plane crash at just 33yrs old. Her untimely death not only broke her husband Clarke Gable's heart, but it deprived the rest of the world of one of the. most talented comedic film actresses to ever come out of Hollywood. Though Carole was also a great dramatic actress, as a female actress, her comedic talent was unmatched.
Laughton!!!!!
Yes,I agree with what you expressed.Ms.Lombard was quite an actress and a caring,thoughtful,kind human being.She did so much to support the Armed Services during World War 11 and sacrificed her life to do so.My prayers for her and her "remaining" family.
I will watch anything with Charles Laughton.
Me too, even this clunker of a movie. Bad script, even worse direction. Without, Laughton and Lombard it wouldn't have anyone to salvage it. Poor Carol Lombard had to struggle in this one. At least Laughton could have some fun with his character.
Me too
Agree both! Nobody but Laughton could "chew the scenery" like this and make you believe it enough to hate him! I humbly submit, a (Coen ?) re-make might star Billy Bob Thornton!?@@briandelion49
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It's pretty bad. The plot is Jamaica Inn meets A Streetcar Named Desire. I'm trying to imagine it as a comedy, but the headhunters are an obstacle. @@briandelion49
Charles Laughton transforms into a great performance! And, of course Miss Lombard is breathtaking as ever
Another early 30s precode "island film" with the glamorous Carol Lombard.
Thank you DK for reviving these old treasures!
Thanks!!
Charles Laughton is having the time of his life in this one!
Thank you so much for taking the time to post these treasures of movies. 🎥 I am someone that was considered an old soul at the age of eight. I was a Betty Davis fan, Humphrey, Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Barbara Stanwick, James Cagney, James, Stewart, Gary, Grant, Lauren Bacall, Walter Brennan, ,
Spencer, Tracie, Katherine Hepburn, John Wayne, Clark gable , Carol Lombard… and the list goes on….. !! I now I love to sit back and escape .. sadly more than ever.
Thank you again, DK ❣️
Thank you,for your well expressed statements.I agree with your perspective.
OMG! how have I not seen this fantastic classic movie! Movies today just don't have the quality of acting and story lines. Charles Laughton is one of the greats. Carol Lombard too. Great characters and story line! Excellent film!
Yes! You can find a plot in every one of these films without having to sit thru gratuitous sex scenes, car chases or explosions (haven't we seen enough of that?). A good story, well told, by artists who are dedicated to the craft of moviemaking.
Laughton is fantastic!!!!! What an actor! He lifts this film to a classic!
It's interesting to watch the clash of Laughton, Bickford and Lombard, Taylors acting styles. It feels like hollywood versus the stage.
Thank you for posting this brilliant film..you always know that the movie will be "edge of your seat" with Charles Laughton..all great actors!! 🦋🌻🌻🌻
Just cool, what cool really is. Love the club scene in the beginning, so realistic. Great job! My mother and father were born in 1933.
Mine in 1920 and 21. These old films put their lives in perspective for me. Both grew up in small towns with theaters and saw a lot of movies. I imagine them sitting in a theater watching these films. Also a snapshot of the world they were living in. Grandparents married in 1903. 12× greatgrandpa and his 7 sons and their families came to America from Holland in 1654. Some of the more modern films are so wonderfully as historically accurate as they can get them and they give me a view of what their world looked like as they sailed into a new life to help build a new country. I love a good period piece even if they were made recently.
Kind of an amateur fashion historian so the fabulous clothes from old films and new period films tickle me.
Thank you so much DK for all those priceless films !!! Impeccable treasures all of them !
Many thanks!!
*This* is a classic. Laughton plays the rogue like no one else. Lombard gave her character so much raw emotion...she was like a trapped mouse, and he was a hungry tomcat.
Love Carole Lombard, Its in my playlist.
MEOW
Charles Laughton has become one of my favorite actors of the early films. Thank you for posting this.
Mine too.
Miss Lombard, her mother, Otto Winkler of MGM, and a plane load of servicemen fatally crashed into Potosi Mountain NV, in 1942. She had set records on her war bonds tours I love seeing her, but grieve at how they all died without warning or chance of survival.
Charles always in charge. A well done flick for 1933 better than all the computer, robot, trick photography of today. I felt I was born in the wrong era but here I am. Tku for post.
How despicable is Charles Laughton in this role! He plays it with such relish, too! He never really disappoints 👍🏼
This print is so sharp that during the titles you can see the grain increase during the optical effects. For RUclips, that's sharp!
Simply astonishing. A small masterwork.
Laughton can surely play repulsive characters. Ones that have absolutely no redeeming qualities. Usually the villain has something that mitigates or explains the cruelty but Prin had nothing. Nothing likable about him at all yet we are drawn to the character like moths to a flame because of Laughton"s portrayal of him. Every nuance of his body and soul is that of the characters he
plays. A Master at his craft. I LOVE watching a Master ply their craft whether it's on stage, at a forgery, in a kitchen or in an artist's studio. Building shelters out of bamboo or elaborate costumes for stage and screen. I'm really enjoying watching all these phenomenal actors practice their craft! And the fact that there are no computers, animation or special effects. It's all done thru the magic of the camera operators. Masters at their craft.
Thanks, DK Classics.
What a magnificant performance by Laughton! This is the same year that he won the Oscar for "The Private Life of Henry VIII", and well deserved too. Lombard was absolutely gorgeous, but not that much for her to do in this film although she made the best of it. All in all a great edge of your seat story. I had to laugh at Charles Bickford saying the line "See you in church." because it's the same line Lombard said 3 yrs. later to William Powell in "My Man Godfrey" only it was hilarious.
"My Man G." Anytime it happens to be on, I gotta watch it again! Thanks for the catch of the line.
GREAT film. Sir Charles Laughton gives a superb performance and Carol Lombard is simply wonderful and breathtakingly beautiful.
It took me awhile to get through it, but wow. Shades of "Apocalypse Now!" Laughton and Bickford at the end knowing they are doomed. DK, thanks. Should not be forgotten.
Charles Laughton was truly great, but for some reason was never knighted.
Oh, my ,a ther Mack Gorden ,melody ,so,just beatiful yes ,CAROLE LOMBARD ,was very beautful. Kent Taylor,was as handsome as ever
Whoa. Anybody not watching to the end? "Apocalypse Now" has shades of this.
I’m not. Despite Carole Lombard, the story isn’t compelling.
Excellent film in every aspect
Thank you for White Woman with the lovely Carole Lombard, Charles Laughton (and his stable of strange characters), and Charles Bickford (who was as tough as they came in films). I always liked the pre-code Paramount films with W.C. Fields, Lombard, Fredric March, Gary Cooper, Bing Crosby, among others. All this despite the Great Depression draining profits from that and other Hollywood studios. However, still entertaining.
What a move loved it!
I have seen so many pre-Code films except this one. Charles Laughton -- is simply the greatest actor of all time -- bar none. Thanks for uploading it. Laughton is my favorite actor, I have now seen all of his films. My favorites include This Land is Mine, Young Bess, The Bribe, Ruggles of Red Gap, The Big Clock, The Man on the Eiffel Tower, Hobson's Choice, The Canterville Ghost, Tales of Manhattan, Piccadilly, Devil & the Deep, The Old Dark House, Payment Deferred, Island of Lost Souls, Barretts of Wimpole St., Private Life of Henry VIII, Rembrandt, Mutiny on the Bounty, St. Martin's Lane, Jamaica Inn, It Started with Eve, Tuttles of Tahiti, Stand By for Action, The Man from Down Under, Capt. Kidd, The Paradine Case, O'Henry's Full House, Witness for the Prosecution, Under 10 Flags. My favorite is The Hunchback of Notre Dame because Laughton's emotional range blows up the screen & is off the charts. His redemption as a human being debased and ridiculed is probably the greatest acting lesson for any present & future actor. His pathos, pain & struggles embolden him to save another, thereby not only redeeming himself but also chastising God's agents on earth -- the Church priests -- whose power is absolute while subjugating the citizens with lies, hypocrisy & political/military force. Laughton discovered Maureen O'Hara, gave her a break when she was a teenager; her gypsy characterization is a perfect match for Laughton's hunchback. The tightly written & edited screenplay, superb direction & cinematography as well as set/costume design make it a perfect picture. We start out laughing, then experience fear & agony & finally, relief & sorrow at the apotheosis of 2 kindred spirits who finally found each other through misfortune but realized that fate brought them together as they lie hand in hand. Every time I see this film, I cry for joy because they have finally been set free. THIS IS WHY CHARLES LAUGHTION IS THE GREATEST ACTOR OF ALL TIME!!!!!!😢😊
Fantastic ……Thank you
Not one bug flying in whole movie.
Fabulous
Wow thank you for showing this great ole flick..GREAT CAST !!!
Great, macabre ending! Just desserts for Ol’pot belly!!
They should do a remake of this movie.
For a standard jungle flick, that was pretty good! Of course, everything with Laughton is well worth the watch, and Lombard is always lovely (although you wonder how she could keep her self and clothes so clean in the jungle). Lombard's singing is dubbed by radio singer Mona Lowe, who did at least one other dub job for a film. Lombard's voice reputedly wasn't bad at all, but she and the studio felt she didn't have the chops to perform as a nightclub singer. BTW, this was Percy Kilbride's film debut.
How do you know
@@bethr8756 About the dubbing? There's a lot of information available both here on YT and various film-related websites about dubbing singers. I also came across an article that briefly discussed the making of the film, and the article mentioned that the studio felt Lombard's singing voice wasn't strong enough. Same problem faced by Ava Gardner in SHOW BOAT.
@@aadamtx oh ok. Thanks for the info!
A very unusual,sad movie and it was well acted by Ms.Lombard,Mr.Laughton,Mr.Kilbride,Mr.Bickford,Mr.Taylor.
She died way too young. 😢😢😢😢😢
Great title great cast etc
Didnt they remake this movie ? Seems I have seen this story/plot on another movie about a rubber plantation.
There were quite a number of "jungle pictures" made around that time, Hollywood seemed to be obsessed with them. And they all had similar plots. You might be thinking of "Red Dust" with Clark Gable and Jean Harlow that took place on a rubber plantation.
It was done before same plot . Ladie's name was Sadie thompson. Cher did this in one of her vanp songs on sonny and Cher.
1939 Island of Los Men starring Anna May Wong in Lombard's role. Only she's the daughter tracking down her father on the island.
Rita Hayworth.
I love Carole Lombard
Oh my god Charles Laughton is THE SHIT!!
You can have your Brandos and Jack Nicholsons and DeNiros they're fine but Laughton crushes them all! I'll watch him read a phone book.
And I must indeed watch some more of Miss Lombard!
If you could go back in time and ask Laughton to mimic Nicholson, Brando, and DeNiro's signature lines/scenes, THAT would be both dramatic and hilarious!
Interesting combination.
What a hidden gem!
In every facet....
Carole Lombard the love of Clark Gables life died too soon beautiful and could act and of course Charles Laughton makes everything better👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
The 'stache, the blackface, this film's got it all
Carole!
Wow both aCarole Lombard❤ and a Charles Laugton movie ive not seen, all rolled into one! now Roll That Film 🎬🎥🍷🧓
Pa Kettle
At first I thought it was a Helen Morgan’s singing voice but now I don’t know who it is. The Asian guy speaking to her in the restaurant/club is the same Asian guy in King Kong who found the Native bracelet on board.
The black long dress 👗❤
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Did Laughton ever play a role he did not own? No one could upstage Lombard like he did.
One weird movie.
Was that a very young Pa Kettle? In the beginning around 17:00
"I SAY, who IS that White Woman?... Ahh, yes-yes-yes, Denning, Denning, Denning, Denning, Denning, Denning, Denning...."
Was Charles Laughton ever not a villain in his films?
"The Hunchback of Notre Dame," "The Canterville Ghost," etc.
Ruggles of Red Gap.
St Martins Lane.
Witness for the Prosecution
"The Old House," was a Great movie and Mr.Laughton played a compassionate,kind man.He was very,very good in this movie.
Hogey Carmichael is in it too.
I thought that was him. He was actually acting this time.
No, it's Percy Kilbride. No wonder.
Tried, but in the end, no.
Seems like movies in this era shows woman's inhumanity to woman far too often.
too often for what?
An absurd movie with Laughton playing an absurd part.
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You forgot with a pointless name. White Woman. All the main characters were white, why did they single her out?
Why is it called "White Woman"?
Does seem kind of generic.
Because the Carole Lombard character was the 1st new white woman anyone had seen there in 20 years in that area the movie is set in.
Thirty years later, going braless would be a thing again. 🙄
I do myself. Then again, I'm a guy. 😄
@trilbywilby7826
They were seemingly not entirely invented then and because of that, there were seemingly far more small breasted actresses than anything else.
She realises her guilts justified to an Army deserter deserving no such Injustice in life decide both befriend and escaped yet to uncertain future for surely?!
Good Lord Remember me also when You return in God's glory.
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Allah's forgotten all about you.
500원이 1933년 시대 돈 가치 있어요
Not.great and lazy on the natives' Bahasa Malayu. Lombard looked nice though...
Not very pleasant. Stopped watching
>>>. 41:10 Hes a crybaby !!
What the hell
Eve then the NRA was way to involved with things
3rd of his I've seen with Devil and the Deep being first and this will be last (despite liking The Suspect) due to his killing the chimp even tho fake. 😡😡
Laughton always played scummy roles because that's what he was off-camera.
Scummy! He had exquisite taste, he alllegedly loved Tyrone Power.
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If that's true it only reinforces the fact that Hollywood is-was
a nest of homos and lesbians from day one.
Wasn’t Charles Laughton married to Elsa Lancaster?
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I don't know and I don't care.
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