" BackgroundThe Cabin in the Cotton(1932) is director Michael Curtiz"" pre-Code social melodrama about social injustice, adapted with a screenplay by Paul Green of Henry Harrison Kroll""s 1931 novelCabin in he Cotton -a diatribe against the exploitation of sharecroppers by wealthy southern landowners." When Riggs came to her side, she insisted on being married immediately: "I want to be a wife before I""m a mother.Riggs had resumed smoking "to take my mind off my dog-biscuit problem...Well, I been chasing more cars lately and uh, you know, when I try and lick my balls, I keep falling off the couch.He enlists the help of one of the gangs"" molls, femme fatale (Gloria Grahame), in order to seek revenge.