History Film / RedDust

* YourCheatingHeart: Barbara and Dennis have an affair while Gary is off in the jungle scouting new territory for the plantation.

''Red Dust'' is a 1932 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Creator/ClarkGable, Creator/JeanHarlow, and Creator/MaryAstor.

* HeroicDimples: Dennis, as did other characters played by Clark Gable.

* SpiritualSuccessor: the 1935 film ''China Seas'' also has Clark Gable as a tough guy who works at an exotic place and has to choose between a sophisticated lady and a brassy HookerWithAHeartOfGold character played by Jean Harlow, [[spoiler:ultimately ending up with the latter.]]

''Red Dust'' is a 1932 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Creator/ClarkGable, Creator/JeanHarlow, and Mary Astor.

''Red Dust'' was a big hit for Creator/{{MGM}}, and it made Gable the most popular leading man in Hollywood. Gable and Harlow starred together [[ThoseTwoActors several more times]] before Harlow's untimely death at the age of 26 in 1937. 21 years later, Gable again starred in TheRemake, ''Film/{{Mogambo}}'', with Ava Gardner in the Harlow part and Creator/GraceKelly in the Astor part. ''Red Dust'' has a place in the UsefulNotes/NationalFilmRegistry.

''Red Dust'' was a big hit for Creator/{{MGM}}, and it made Gable the most popular leading man in Hollywood. Gable and Harlow starred together [[ThoseTwoActors several more times]] before Harlow's untimely death at the age of 26 in 1937. 21 years later, Gable again starred in TheRemake, ''Film/{{Mogambo}}'', with Ava Gardner in the Harlow part and Creator/GraceKelly in the Astor part. ''Red Dust'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry.

--> '''Dennis''': Is there any brand that will stop you from talking?

* MaliciousMisnaming: Inverted with Vantine and Dennis, who keep calling pretending not to know each other and calling each other "Lila" and "Fred".

!!Tropes:

''Red Dust'' is a 1932 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Creator/ClarkGable, Creator/JeanHarlow, and Mary Astor. Dennis Carson (Gable) manages a rubber plantation in French Indochina. A prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), who is seeking to avoid the authorities in Saigon, arrives at the plantation, having taken the boat upriver. She and Dennis flirt for a little bit before starting a relationship. That relationship is interrupted when engineer Gary Willis and his wife Barbara (Astor) arrive. Barbara is a classy, sophisticated lady, the exact opposite of the wisecracking Vantine. Dennis finds an excuse to send Gary on a difficult surveying expedition deep in the jungle, while Barbara, who stays behind, proves receptive to Dennis's charms.

''Red Dust'' was a big hit for MGM, and it made Gable the most popular leading man in Hollywood. Gable and Harlow starred together [[ThoseTwoActors several more times]] before Harlow's untimely death at the age of 26 in 1937. 21 years later, Gable again starred in TheRemake, ''Film/{{Mogambo}}'', with Ava Gardner in the Harlow part and Creator/GraceKelly in the Astor part. ''Red Dust'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry.

* YourCheatingHeart: Barbara and Dennis have an affair while Gary is off in the jungle scouting new territory for the plantation.

''Red Dust'' was a big hit for MGM, and it made Gable the most popular leading man in Hollywood. Gable and Harlow starred together [[ThoseTwoActors several more times]] before Harlow's untimely death at the age of 26 in 1937. 21 years later, Gable again starred in TheRemake, ''Mogambo'', with Ava Gardner in the Harlow part and Creator/GraceKelly in the Astor part. ''Red Dust'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry.

''Red Dust'' is a 1932 film directed by Victor Fleming and starring Creator/ClarkGable, JeanHarlow, and Mary Astor. Dennis Carson (Gable) manages a rubber plantation in French Indochina. A prostitute named Vantine (Harlow), who is seeking to avoid the authorities in Saigon, arrives at the plantation, having taken the boat upriver. She and Dennis flirt for a little bit before starting a relationship. That relationship is interrupted when engineer Gary Willis and his wife Barbara (Astor) arrive. Barbara is a classy, sophisticated lady, the exact opposite of the wisecracking Vantine. Dennis finds an excuse to send Gary on a difficult surveying expedition deep in the jungle, while Barbara, who stays behind, proves receptive to Dennis's charms.

* WetSariScene: Much of this film is dedicated to making Jean Harlow look sexy, but Mary Astor gets some {{Fanservice}} of her own when Barbara and Dennis get caught out in the open during a monsoon.

* SpiritualSuccessor: the 1935 film ''China Seas'' also has Clark Gable as a tough guy who works at an exotic place and has to choose between a cool lady and a brassy HookerWithAHeartOfGold character played by Jean Harlow, [[spoiler:ultimately ending up with the latter.]]

''Red Dust'' was a big hit for MGM, and it made Gable the most popular leading man in Hollywood. Gable and Harlow starred together [[ThoseTwoActors several more times]] before Harlow's untimely death at the age of 26 in 1937. 21 years later, Gable again stared in TheRemake, ''Mogambo'', with Ava Gardner in the Harlow part and Creator/GraceKelly in the Astor part. ''Red Dust'' has a place in the NationalFilmRegistry.

* AsianSpeekeEngrish: Hoy, Dennis's servant, is a very, ''very'' unfortunate stereotype, with the broken English, the servile attitude, and the bad teeth.