Sadie Thompson

“Sadie could storm any barrack she attacked! Magnetism had never been heard of until she hit town! What a woman! You'll say so, too!”

Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson) steps off a boat in Pago Pago hoping to find honest work, and she falls for Timothy O'Hara, an American sailor who doesn't care what she did before. The missionary Alfred Davidson (Lionel Barrymore) landed on the same island and has other plans, petitioning to have her sent back to San Francisco. Raoul Walsh's film is about who gets to decide whether a woman's past can be left behind.