Dennis Carson (Clark Gable) is the frustrated owner of an Indochina rubber plantation. Vantine (Jean Harlow) arrives on the boat and is hiding out from the Saigon police. Despite being initially disinterested, he gets hooked on the brassy female. Then surveyor Gary Willis arrives with his restrained wife Barbara. Gary becomes ill with malaria and Dennis falls for Barbara.
It's a pre-Code movie with Jean Harlow taking a bath in a barrow. It's trashy. It's a pulpy romance. It's sweaty. Clark Gable is a hard man. Mary Astor and Jean Harlow cannot be more different other than that they are both beautiful women. There isn't enough heat between Gable and Astor although they have one soaking wet kiss. There is a difference between hesitant and cold. Gable and Harlow have a bit more fun. More back and forth like the barrow bath would improve the situation. Overall, Astor is too cold, Dennis' feelings are a little muddled, and the triangle is a little shaky.
It's a pre-Code movie with Jean Harlow taking a bath in a barrow. It's trashy. It's a pulpy romance. It's sweaty. Clark Gable is a hard man. Mary Astor and Jean Harlow cannot be more different other than that they are both beautiful women. There isn't enough heat between Gable and Astor although they have one soaking wet kiss. There is a difference between hesitant and cold. Gable and Harlow have a bit more fun. More back and forth like the barrow bath would improve the situation. Overall, Astor is too cold, Dennis' feelings are a little muddled, and the triangle is a little shaky.