It's hard to imagine what Dorothy Parker had to do with this script. It is ultra serious, ultra "Important." All it lacks is Ann Harding.
Herbert Marshall, Fredric March, and Merle Oberon are childhood friends who grow up. Marshall grows into a very stiff-upper-lip type. March is too, to a degree. Of course, both are in love with Oberon.
For her debut in American movies, the beautiful Oberon is given a most unflattering hairstyle. It would have looked better on a shrub. Possibly on a dog. She turns in a creditable performance, though she was generally a wooden actress. Gorgeous looking but no fire.
March is interesting in the later scenes. (No hint from me as to what happens, but the plot also improved.) I don't mind women's pictures of this era but certain of them, this included, leave me cold. And this movie IS cold -- cold and clammy.
Herbert Marshall, Fredric March, and Merle Oberon are childhood friends who grow up. Marshall grows into a very stiff-upper-lip type. March is too, to a degree. Of course, both are in love with Oberon.
For her debut in American movies, the beautiful Oberon is given a most unflattering hairstyle. It would have looked better on a shrub. Possibly on a dog. She turns in a creditable performance, though she was generally a wooden actress. Gorgeous looking but no fire.
March is interesting in the later scenes. (No hint from me as to what happens, but the plot also improved.) I don't mind women's pictures of this era but certain of them, this included, leave me cold. And this movie IS cold -- cold and clammy.