Director(s)
Curtis Bernhardt
Production Year
1953
Genre(s)
Drama, Musical
Approx. running minutes
90m
Cast
Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray
Film
Miss Sadie Thompson
sexual violence, moderate sex references
MISS SADIE THOMPSON is a 1953 US musical drama in which a missionary in American Samoa is upset by the arrival of a woman he suspects of being a former sex worker.
MISS SADIE THOMPSON is a 1953 US musical drama in which a missionary in American Samoa is upset by the arrival of a woman he suspects of being a former sex worker.
- A white American missionary claims that it is his duty to ‘raise the moral standards’ of American Samoan ‘natives’, but his views are not supported by the film as a whole. Another scene contains a casual use of the outdated term ‘chinaman’. A man shouts aggressively at his fiancee during an argument and smashes some of her possessions. There are undetailed verbal references to a person having taken their own life off screen. Mild bad language includes ‘harlot’ and ‘tramp’. There are also frequent scenes of smoking, reflecting the era in which the film was made.
Director(s)
Curtis Bernhardt
Production Year
1953
Genre(s)
Drama, Musical
Approx. running minutes
90m
Cast
Rita Hayworth, José Ferrer, Aldo Ray
Classified Date:
26/02/1954
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Columbia Picture Corp. Ltd
sexual violence, moderate sex references
Classified Date:
02/05/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
SPHE VOD
- A white American missionary claims that it is his duty to ‘raise the moral standards’ of American Samoan ‘natives’, but his views are not supported by the film as a whole. Another scene contains a casual use of the outdated term ‘chinaman’. A man shouts aggressively at his fiancee during an argument and smashes some of her possessions. There are undetailed verbal references to a person having taken their own life off screen. Mild bad language includes ‘harlot’ and ‘tramp’. There are also frequent scenes of smoking, reflecting the era in which the film was made.
Classified date
02/05/2024
Language
English