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Crawford goes overboard as the jaded Sadie in Maugham's fine novel about sex and religion, with Huston giving one of his best performances as the zealot Davidson. A tramp steamer is forced to dock at remote Pago Pago in the Samoas after a disease breaks out on board. Among the passengers is pavement pounder Crawford, whose curves quickly attract the eyes of woman-hungry soldiers on the island, especially good-hearted Gargan, a sergeant who naively believes that Crawford is not what the crooked seams of her stockings should easily tell him. Crawford jokes with and teases the soldiers but it's all in suggestive fun, which is how layman religious zealot Huston sees he...