As fans of practically everybody in this cast, I knew that the casting of Barbara Stanwyck as a Cuban would be suspect. I proved myself to be right, not having seen this film in over 20 years. This is difficult to overcome and as hard as I tried, I couldn't get past that, her Brooklyn accent, although not outrageously strong, coming through at certain intervals. She had attempted this in one of her very first films (the disastrous "Mexicali Rose") and by 1936, was big enough of a star to choose her own projects.
Wallace Beery's character seems to be there to be the comic matchmaker between Stanwyck and John Boles (as an American Lieutenant) with Alan Hale the stereotypical Spanish villain. All this casting is ironic considering that a year later, Stanwyck would be nominated for an Oscar for "Stella Dallas" where Boles played her husband and Hale played her alcoholic sidekick.
Wallace Beery's character seems to be there to be the comic matchmaker between Stanwyck and John Boles (as an American Lieutenant) with Alan Hale the stereotypical Spanish villain. All this casting is ironic considering that a year later, Stanwyck would be nominated for an Oscar for "Stella Dallas" where Boles played her husband and Hale played her alcoholic sidekick.