Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
Marguerita Padula
- Madame Kya
- (as Margaret Padula)
Leon Belasco
- Assistant to Manager
- (uncredited)
Abner Biberman
- Wardrobe Buyer
- (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
- Waiter
- (uncredited)
Vernon Downing
- Ship Passenger
- (uncredited)
Willie Fung
- Ling
- (uncredited)
Charles Halton
- Manager of Rubber Company
- (uncredited)
- Directors
- Jack Conway
- Leslie Fenton(uncredited)
- Writers
- Ben Hecht
- George Oppenheimer(uncredited)
- Josef von Sternberg(uncredited)
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaThe American Film Institute Catalog of Feature Films 1931-1940 states that this was Hedy Lamarr's last film under her MGM contract; it was her first. AFI also adds that Mary Taylor was signed to a long-term MGM contract as a result of her work in this picture; in fact, she would be seen in only four feature films in her entire career, and only one more of them, Blossoms in the Dust (1941) would be made at MGM.
- Quotes
Bill Carey: Father... Father, help us.
Father Antoine: My son, she goes where there is no east or west. And she will be judged by one who alone knows how great or how little were her sins.
- ConnectionsFeatured in From the Ends of the Earth (1939)
- SoundtracksEach Time You Say Goodbye (I Die A Little)
(1939)
Music by Phil Ohman
Lyrics Foster Carling
Sung by Gloria Franklin (uncredited) (dubbed by Harriet Cruise (uncredited))
Featured review
Fantastic Classic Gem
Hedy Lamarr, (Manon DeVargnes Carey) was so beautiful in this film and her acting was outstanding along with Robert Taylor, (William Carey). Bill Carey played the role as a playboy with plenty of money and sails to Saigon and meets Manon in a bar and the two of them fall in love with each other once they look into each other eyes. Bill does not know very much about Manon or the fact that she has a lover named Pierre Delaroch, (Joseph Schildkraut) who lives a very shady life and is up to all kinds of tricks. Pierre becomes jealous once he finds out about Manon falling in love with Bill Carey and makes contact with his friends in the government of Saigon in order not to grant her any visas to the United States or Paris, France. Manon is a lady who tells many lies and is really a very sly and tricky lady when it comes to men or anyone. There is plenty of romance in this film and extremely dramatic situations which face these two lovers. If Hedy Lamarr did not star in this film, I am sure Betty Davis would have done a great job, but never as beautiful. Enjoy.
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- Release date
- Country of origin
- Languages
- Also known as
- Dama tropskih noći
- Filming locations
- Cambodia(cambodia)
- Production company
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- Budget
- $913,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 32 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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