Watched specifically for Barbara Stanwyck and she doesn't disappoint in her role, equally compelling and beautiful on screen. On the other hand, the story itself isn't as overwhelmingly good, following the theme of the much seen before "con", this time in the form of American consumer evangelism. Sam Hardy plays quite a good sleaze-bag manager but there isn't much else to the story besides a romance with David Manner's character John and Florence. I don't fall into the people who see everything wrong with modern day cinema and champion everything before the 1960, I actually enjoy both and this was just a decent viewing.
Note: A common place racist image is present in this film when John introduces his "two friends: Pagliacci the clown and Sambo the hoofer" This scene adds nothing to the plot and you wonder why it was even added but that these things were quite common and just thought of as funny in this period.
Note: A common place racist image is present in this film when John introduces his "two friends: Pagliacci the clown and Sambo the hoofer" This scene adds nothing to the plot and you wonder why it was even added but that these things were quite common and just thought of as funny in this period.