Due to a possible cholera epidemic onboard, passengers on a ship are forced to disembark at Pago Pago, a small village on a Pacific island where it incessantly rains. Among the stranded passengers are Sadie Thompson, a prostitute, and Alfred Davidson, a fanatic missionary who will try to redeem her.

Joan Crawford
as Sadie Thompson

Walter Huston
as Alfred Davidson

Matt Moore
as Dr. Robert MacPhail

Guy Kibbee
as Joe Horn

William Gargan
as Sergeant Tim O'Hara

Beulah Bondi
as Mrs. Davidson

Kendall Lee
as Mrs. MacPhail

Fred Howard
as Hodgson

Ben Hendricks Jr.
as Griggs

Mary Shaw
as Ameena
CinemaSerf
There are times in this film when I could quite cheerfully have hung Walter Huston's "Davidson" from the yardarm... Joan Crawford is "Sadie Thompson" - a prostitute merrily plying her trades on a South Pacific island with the visiting American troops. The arrival of the seriously puritanical "Davids...