White Woman

"Woman Hunger. Crazed Men Who Lived Without Love--Sly Whispers?" read the ads for this ridiculous "adults only" feature of the early 1930s that comes off today as great camp. Laughton, fresh from his role in ISLAND OF LOST SOULS, is the cruel head of a Malaysian rubber plantation. He marries Lombard, a singer about to be deported. Her life with Laughton provides little happiness until Taylor, a plantation worker, comes along to relieve her loneliness. Laughton becomes jealous and sends Taylor off to headhunter country. The plantation owner considers Taylor a coward and is surprised when the man returns unharmed. Later there's a native revolt and Bickford, an escape...