[Bounci]

Yet another Pre-Code film, this is from the film Rain (1932), starring Joan Crawford as Sadie Thompson, a prostitute who finds herself stranded on the island of Pago Pago after the ship comes down with cholera, based on a short story of the same name by W Somerset Maugham. Here Joan gets goosed by the hotel proprietor (and General Store manager) Guy Kibbee (yep, him again) before 'introducing herself' to a gang of happy sailors with a bottle of booze. When someone starts up the gramophone, she starts to dance with one of the sailors, but her tight skirt grabs another's attention, who cries "Hotdog! A birds eye bull!" and gives her bum a playful slap as she goes past, rubbing her bottom. This also brings to the attention the wife (Belulah Bondi) of a missionary, who was also on the ship forced to dock, and makes her displeasure at them dancing on the Sabbath known. "Mr Horn," she demands of Kibbee. "Is this sort of thing general in your store?" "Well, it IS a General Store," is his laidback reply.