The Cabin In The Cotton

Barthelmess had just about finished his career when this was made, teaming him with a young woman named Bette Davis. She is perfectly cast as a rich Southern vamp who toys with the emotions of Barthelmess, an indigent share-cropper's son who works as the night man at the general store owned by Davis' father (Churchill). Barthelmess is promoted to bookkeeper, then learns that Churchill has been cheating his tenant farmers out of much of their profits. But now Barthelmess is almost like a son to Churchill, who hopes to get the younger man to fink on the tenant farmers that are planning a rebellion. Barthelmess is in a pickle; he loves Davis but also has strong feelin...