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Redundant and unnecessary.

How sad is this?

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

. . . (that is, censored, cut out, and excised) from the not-so-Good Books on the shelves of U.S. President Putin's For-Profit Charter Brainwashing Shacks, overseen by his Secretary of Miseducation, Pyramid-Scheming Billionairess Betsy "Amway Calling" DeVos. WHICH half, you might wonder? It's all those verses where Jesus says that Chris Christie could pass through the Eye of a Needle easier than a Rich Fat Cat One Per Center Putin Oligarchical Traitor getting through the Pearly Gates, as well as the Parables about Good Mexicans tending to newly-impoverished American 99 Per Centers while Putin's Puppet Rump, Paul Ryan, and Mitch McConnell cross to the other side of the road. With THE CABIN IN THE COTTON, Warner Bros. warns the U.S. South of a Day when their Castrated Version of the Bible and their multi-generational plot to stunt most of their population through deficient nutrition, exercise, and schooling will result in Backwards Masses capable of Rigging Sacred Elections in favor of self-confessed Red Commie KGB-backed Serial Finger Rapist Game Show Hosts. Warner Bros. gave the Confederate Fat Cat Traitors a Choice: Pay Reparations NOW (1932), or face Repercussions LATER (2017). According to the Book of Revelations, it won't be long Today until the Red State Boulevards run shoulder-deep with Oligarchical Arterial Spray. Warner tried to warn of this with its CABIN IN THE COTTON, but this message fell upon cob-webbed wallets.

It's the Planters vs. the Tenants (but the producers object to taking sides!). Hilariously hoary drama from First National Pictures involves a studious young man, son of Southern cotton-pickers, who graduates from school and takes a job as bookkeeper to a surly land-owner who wants to know who's been stealing his cotton. The boss's firebrand daughter is played by a very young, very blond Bette Davis, easily slipping into Southern Belle mode while pulling some real zingers out of the musty script ("I'd love to kiss ya, but I just washed mah hair...'bye!"). The leading role is played by former silent-screen star Richard Barthelmess, who hasn't adjusted his acting techniques to this improved movie-medium and looks woefully stiff (with a pasty, silent-era make-up job). Dorothy Jordan is the poor girl he loves--she's pretty lively, but this is really Davis' show. ** from ****

The lead (37 when the movie was made) is obviously too old for the part.He is gauche,clumsy,nothing of a working class hero.He's supposed to be clever and educated but we do not feel it.Fortunately the supporting cast is up to scratch ,with a superb Bette Davis at her bitchiest.It's a wonder she can be seduced by such an oaf.Marvin is a smart young man who knows that the way to get out of poverty in the cotton fields is education.Note that his dad passes away as he is reading an article in a newspaper which advocates the right of peoples to education ,be they rich or poor ..During all the movie,Marvin will be caught in the crossfire: his boss,a land owner(Madge's (Davis) father),after laughing when Marvin's father tells him his sonny wants to study quickly understands the whiz kid could be a marvelous informer.When the young man becomes a gentleman ,the tenants feel they are betrayed by one of them..Curtiz superbly places side by side the two worlds during Betty's and Madge's parties.Marvin is ill-at-ease in both.In Betty's house ,he has become out of place in his Sunday's best.In Madge's desirable mansion,during the ball with a jazz band (that costs a arm and a leg,as Marvin tells to his brothers in his final speech), those vulgar popular dances are held up to ridicule by the wealthy man's daughter's guests.The conclusion is the reconciliation between capital and labor (the cooperation) a la "Metropolis" where Marvin is the arbitrator.Curtiz never forgot to tell a story and this old film,despite the reservation expressed about the male lead,can still grab today's audience.Anyway,the numerous Davis' fans would not like to miss one of her early films.

With all the emphasis on Bette Davis in this film, it is easy to overlook the musical interest. I counted four different musical groups, each assigned to a different "class". There was the marching band at the funeral (black used at a poor white event), the jug band (white, at the poor white party), the jazz band (black, at the rich white party), and the blues singer. This is a surprisingly rich array of styles.Interestingly, only the blues singer (Clarence Muse) is credited.