This film begins with society girl, Kay Kerrigan (Joan Bennett), shooting a no-good rich guy for destroying her sister. She soon is on the run and leaves the US. Because the dead guy was very rich and had a well-connected family, they pay detectives to follow her around the globe to bring her to justice. One of them, Sam Wye (Frederic March) finds that instead of bringing her back, he's tempted to just take off with her. When she is caught, he acts like a heel to throw off suspicion and ends up capturing the real killers--even though this sure seems like we saw her kill the cad!
It's pretty amazing. You've got some fine actors (particular Frederic March and Ralph Bellamy) and yet here they look awful. I blame most of it on the dumb dialog but the direction certainly left a lot to be desired. Add to that an over-extensive use of badly realized rear projection, and you've got an amazingly disappointing film. Want an example of the bad dialog?
(talking about Colombo, Sri Lanka):"Colombo---that's in Ohio!"
It's pretty amazing. You've got some fine actors (particular Frederic March and Ralph Bellamy) and yet here they look awful. I blame most of it on the dumb dialog but the direction certainly left a lot to be desired. Add to that an over-extensive use of badly realized rear projection, and you've got an amazingly disappointing film. Want an example of the bad dialog?
(talking about Colombo, Sri Lanka):"Colombo---that's in Ohio!"