| Vintage Pulp | Dec 23 2017 |
Hayworth hits land and a storm soon follows.
Party girl Rita Hayworth is bound for New Caledonia to start a new job, but makes a stopover on Pago Pago along the way, where her wild ways make a splash at a military garrison and nearby village. A pompous missionary who was on the same boat seems to think Hayworth was run out of Honolulu because she was a prostitute. He has no problem spreading this rumor, but is the point to punish her, save her, or bed her? In style Miss Sadie Thompson is classic Hayworth, with her fun-loving ways raising eyebrows and smiting men around the heart, but in execution the movie falls short of her best. No fault of Rita's, though. She makes the film worth watching, even if it's pretty much guaranteed to leave you going, “Huh?” when the credits roll. Maybe the real value here is the lesson the movie provides about the perils of censorship. Read the W. Somerset Maugham source material and you'll see what we mean. Miss Sadie Thompson premiered in the U.S. today in 1953.
I really don't want to think about what I did in Honolulu.
But I want to think about it. I'm thinking about it right now. That's why I'm using a hat to cover my little missionary.
Sadie comes.
And Sadie goes.New CaledoniaPago PagoHonoluluMiss Sadie ThompsonRita HayworthJosé FerrerW. Somerset Maughamposter artcinemamovie review
| Vintage Pulp | Sep 10 2013 |
If we ever get out of this, I’m never watching Shark Week again.
Our post from Sunday showed two guys who didn’t want to be rescued (sort of), and today, on this September 1964 cover of Australia’s Adam magazine, we have castaways that really need help. The illustration is for Hal Abbott’s story “Isle of Change,” a very interesting tale about a sailboat out of Pago Pago that sinks in a storm, marooning three survivors—first on a raft, then on a deserted island. One of the trio is a sailor devoted to his wife in Sydney, while the other two are scheming, dangerous women. In the end, one woman feeds the other to a shark that has been after them since the boat sank, and the sailor is compelled to keep the secret in order to avoid being blamed. Basically, the idea behind the story is: “There were savages on that island, and verily, they were us.” We have sixteen scans below, thirty-three issues of Adam already posted in the website, and eight more issues in the wings.
