Archie Lee Meighan, aristocrate ruiné, vit avec sa femme-enfant Baby Doll dans les restes de sa vaste demeure. Si le mariage est effectif, il n'est pas encore consommé. La petite poupée de chair intéresse également un certain Vacarro, qui a compromis Archie Lee dans une affaire crapuleuse.
The tragic story of three farm worker who migrates from their village to the cotton land Çukurova.
Marvin, fils de métayer, devient employé de nuit d'une épicerie et attire l'attention de la fille de son patron. Promu comptable, il découvre que le gérant de l'épicerie vole les fermiers qui gagnent pourtant durement leur vie.
A single mother suffers a devastating stroke leaving her teenage daughter and 7-year-old son to care for her, testing the family's strength to hold things together as their roles are reversed.
A girl from the wrong side of the tracks is torn between true love and a life of sin.
James 'Jim' Fisk a fait fortune pendant la guerre civile, achetant du coton à bas prix aux fermiers du sud dont les terrains ont été occupés par les troupes de l'Union. Après la guerre, il s'associe avec Nick Boyd (Cary Grant) et le financier Daniel Drew2. Les deux hommes tombent amoureux de la même femme, Josie Mansfield (Frances Farmer).
This short film chronicles the importance of cotton to the economy and culture of America's Old South.
A look at Greenwich Village, produced by the Cotton Producers Institute.
The American woman is the best dressed woman in the world. This is due to Yankee ingeniuty, which makes a fashionable, well-made dress to sell for twenty dollars or less.
Mary Ryan enlists the help of a detective, Jack Craig, to find her missing twin sister Vicky. They follow her trail to the New Orleans swamps where they encounter voodoo priestess Olivier and her zombie henchman.
What does a rural town in South Carolina have to do with China? Americans consume nearly twenty billion new items of clothing each year, and at least one billion of them are made in China. Cotton Road uncovers the transnational movement of cotton and tells the stories of workers lives in a conventional cotton supply chain. From rural farms in South Carolina to factory cities in China, we span the globe to encounter the industrial processes behind our rapacious consumption of cheap clothing and textile products. Are we connected to one another through the things we consume? Cotton Road explores a contemporary landscape of globalized labor through human stories and provides an opportunity to reflect on the ways our consumption impacts others and drives a global economy.