Prompted by Pamela Hutchinson's recent review which mentioned that it drew from the same well as David Lean's Madeleine (1950) albeit bent to an affluent East Coast of the Western Hemisphere milieu. Directed by Clarence Brown from an adaptation by John Meehan and Wanda Tuchock of Marie Belloc Lowndes's novel of the same name, or as the lawyers had it, a plagiarisation of a stage play. Joan Crawford (Mildred Pierce (1945)) led. Not great.
Scandinavian Nils Asther (cast as a Latino Lover) shows clothes horse Crawford a good time in Montevideo until she's had enough and it's time to head home. Aboard ship she meets keeper Robert Montgomery but the previous bloke knows she's the only eligible woman in this movie and won't give up without a fight. Stuff happens back in NYC and the situation is adjudicated by cadaverous District Attorney Lewis Stone who knows how these things have to go. Louise Closser Hale as Miranda (Crawford's maid) is perhaps the most fun with a fruity performance.
Mourdant Hall at the New York Times at the time. Wikipedia.
