If you like to be scared, if you like to laugh, and if you like to learn a thing or two at the movies, this absolutely cannot be missed.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

There's no way I can possibly love it entirely but I just think its ridiculously bad, but enjoyable at the same time.

Rita Hayworth is a red head here. She is Sadie Thompson - a woman running from her past until she gets religion from a Preacher who then does not practice what he preaches. She is on her way to freedom until then.This one was done as a silent film in 1928, Directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Lionel Barrymore. That might just be the best version. In 1932, Joan Crawford did the first sound version. Here in 1953, Hayworth is Sadie number 3. Actually, her look here and the technicolor from MGM look pretty good.Hayworth's acting is fair, as is Jose Ferrer as the holier than thou preacher who does everything he can to stop Sadie but then becomes the very evil man he preaches against. Sadie is just too much for any one man. The plot for all three versions work out the same, and as for how it concludes, let's just say it is self-destructive. This one is worth looking at Rita, whose really the vamp here, but finds religion in the end. Or does she?

i think Rita Hayworth does extremely well in this part of a vivacious, bawdy and flirty night singer given she was actually an extremely shy person at heart and was nothing like her character. this might sound strange but the story between Sadie and Mr Davidson rather reminded me of Esmarelda and Frollo. He was an obsessive moral preacher who despised and was attracted to her, she was a free spirited beautiful women who stands up to him at first, they have a big collision followed by her leaving the hotel, then having to return because he bad mouthed her all over the village, it sort of came as a shock at the end and sort of didn't when he rapes her whilst everyone is at the festival. The hotel is deserted. He is alone with her in her hotel room. She is defenceless. You sort of think you are seeing coming but you don't, the first sign he shows is when he won't moved completely from the doorway so she has to squeeze past him, after that he starts to walk nearer, closer to her then perhaps he should. Over all, its a good film, Rita shines and ferer gives you the creeps, the song 'the heat is on' will make you sizzle, its definitely worth a watch

I am a big fan of Rita Hayworth but this film on the whole wasn't very satisfying for me. Ms. Hayworth of course is very glamorous and her musical numbers will get even the most lackadaisical viewer's attention. I also like Jose Ferrer who was especially brilliant in The Caine Mutiny. Now to the Aldo Ray character. I don't know if the character was written that way or not but Aldo's O'Hara comes across as a dullard. I know he played mentally deficient characters in films with Judy Holliday (The Marrying Kind) and Hepburn & Tracy (Pat & Mike) but here his simpleness detracts from the morality questions that the film tries to address with moderate levels of success. Can someone e-mail an explanation of the ending to me. I'm not sure I get it. With Davidson's death, Sadie is free to rendez-vous with O'Hara but if so doesn't that undo her repentance to go back and confront the sins of her past or is the film saying that since Davidson was a hypocrite so he had no moral authority to preach to Sadie to do so?

I was very surprised to find that Rita Hayworth was very much better than Joan Crawford in the same role (in "Rain"). Crawford always played Crawford, and had a lot of baggage she brought to the role. Hayworth was able to be flirty and vivacious with a "don't cross this line" under it that was very well done. And her changes of feeling over the course of the movie were as convincing as the script would allow, I think.Jose Ferrar was also great in his part... he also had to undergo change, and did it well.Aldo Ray was the weak point, convincing at the beginning as an eager Marine, but not really someone she could spend the rest of her life with... she way outclassed him.Overall, though, an excellent movie, and definitely better in 3D!