Silent Film: "Sadie Thompson"

Description

Silent film with live musical accompaniment by Jeff Rapsis. Intense drama of a "fallen woman" who comes to an island in the South Seas to start a new life, but encounters a zealous missionary who wants to force her back to her former life in San Francisco. See Gloria Swanson, one of the silent screen's leading ladies, in one of her leading roles in a film made long before she played Norma Desmond in "Sunset Boulevard."