The Cabin in the Cotton

(1932)

78 minutes

Drama

Directed by Michael Curtiz

Cast:

Richard Barthelmess as Marvin Blake
Dorothy Jordan as Betty Wright
Bette Davis as Madge Norwood
Hardie Albright as Roland Neal
David Landau as Tom Blake
Berton Churchill as Lane Norwood
Dorothy Peterson as Lilly Blake
Russell Simpson as Uncle Joe
Tully Marshall as Slick
Henry B. Walthall as Eph Clinton
Edmund Breese as Holmes Scott
John Marston as Russell Carter
Erville Alderson as Sock Fisher
William Le Maire as Jake Fisher
Clarence Muse as A Blind Negro

The Cabin in the Cotton trailer
 
Marvin is the son of a sharecropper whose town is full of privation and oblivion. He wants to help make the town better, but discovers his boss is taking advantage of his customers at the general store. Marvin wants the customers to know what is going on, despite the love he feels for the bosses daughter Madge.