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Red Dust: A Tale of Love and Deception in French Indochina

The Plantation Intrigue

On a rubber plantation in French Indochina during the monsoon season, the plantation’s owner/manager Dennis Carson (Gable), a prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), and Barbara Willis (Astor), the wife of engineer Gary Willis (Gene Raymond) are involved in a love triangle. Dennis abandons an informal relationship with Vantine to pursue Barbara, but has a change of heart and returns to Vantine. This all unspools against the backdrop of racial and labor tension with local workers (“coolies”), overseer Guidon’s drunkenness, a roaming tiger, frequent wind and rain, and servant Hoy (Fung) providing comic relief.

The Arrival of Vantine

Vantine arrives at the plantation first, on the lam from the authorities in Saigon. She shows an easy comfort in the plantation’s harsh environment, wisecracks continually, and begins playfully teasing Dennis as soon as she meets him, including byplay over the merits of Roquefort vs. Gorgonzola cheese. He resists her charms at first, but soon gives in, and they quickly develop a friendly, casual relationship where they tease each other and pretend to be too tough for affection. They call each other “Fred” and “Lily”, as though neither can be bothered to remember the other’s name.

The Love Triangle Unravels

However, Dennis loses interest in Vantine when the Willises arrive. Gary Willis is a young, inexperienced engineer, and his wife Barbara a classy, ladylike beauty. Dennis is immediately attracted to Barbara, and, after sending Gary on a lengthy surveying trip, he spends the next week seducing Barbara as Vantine watches jealously. He successfully persuades Barbara to leave Gary, but recants after visiting Gary in the swamp and learning how deeply he loves Barbara. Dennis has also seen that Barbara is unsuited for the plantation’s primitive conditions, as is Gary, and has a painful memory of his own mother’s death on the plantation when he was a boy. He decides to send both of them back to more civilized surroundings.

The Climactic Deception

At the story’s climax, Dennis turns Barbara’s feelings against him by pretending he never loved her, at which point she shoots him. This provides a cover for Vantine and Dennis to save Barbara’s marriage and reputation by insisting to Gary that Barbara rejected Dennis’s advances. Gary says he would have shot Dennis if his wife hadn’t. The film ends after Dennis has sent the Willises away, with Vantine reading bedtime stories to him as he recuperates from the gunshot wound, as he playfully tries to fondle her, and wisecracks, “Roquefort or Gorgonzola?” before Hoy pokes his head into the room, titters, and has a pillow thrown at him.

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