Atmospherically photographed by Bill Daniels, a high-powered cast talk (and talk) about sex, booze and marriage, but it all proves wilfully uninvolving; and even an attempt at a drive-by shooting of gangster Clark Gable is strangely casually staged. There are, however, always the shiny and diaphanous gowns in which Norma Shearer sashays about the luxurious settings to keep you watching; her magnificent profile always turned to the camera as pappy Lionel Barrymore attempts to swear off the booze with as little success as Ms Shearer is attempting to swear off low-life boyfriend Clark Gable.
Leslie Howard, meanwhile, has as thankless a role as Gable's rival for the hand of the female lead as he did eight years later as Ashley Wilkes in 'Gone With the Wind'.
Leslie Howard, meanwhile, has as thankless a role as Gable's rival for the hand of the female lead as he did eight years later as Ashley Wilkes in 'Gone With the Wind'.