This week's Pat of Appreciation comes from the Pre Code classic Red Dust (1932), which made a star of Clark Gable, and was one of a number of films he made with co star Jean Harlow. Harlow plays a prostitute who turns up at a rubber plantation in Indonesia where Gable is working and ends up sleeping with him that night (which must of raised more than a few eyebrows back then). This clip comes the morning afterwards, when Jean meets Gable, thinking it might be the start of a beautiful relationship. However, Gable quickly dispels that notion, thanking her for last night's fun, popping money down her front and then giving her backside a friendly pat of thanks before walking off, leaving poor Jean crestfallen. There is also a famous scene in the film involving Jean Harlow in a barrel, and that I will be posting in the Pre-Code Hollywood thread here:
https://forum.oneclickchicks.com/sho...=237829&page=6. But the film itself is hugely enjoyable, and it's a tragic shame that Harlow - who came to films in 1928 and had considerable success in the 1930's - died so young in 1937 of kidney failure, aged just 26, and now seems forgotten by today's generation of movie fans.