Pre-code queen Constance Bennett looks great in her nurse's uniform, over in London when she falls in love with Joel McCrea. Their romance leads to her becoming an expectant mother and marry the wealthy English nobleman Paul Cavanaugh who's willing to raise another man's child as his own. But then as circumstances always has it happen, McCrea comes back from the dead, leading to pure torture for queen of misery Constance. Cavanaugh is so saint like until he goes for custody after McCrea comes back that he should have a halo floating over him. Rather inconsistent in character development.
A silly melodrama that is completely unbelievable in the sense that Cavanaugh accepts Bennett's pregnancy of another man as if he was not at all jealous of it, and the continued twists just get more ridiculous. But it's a good looking film, only suffering a little by technology of the time that would shortly afterwards improve. That this was an original story seems implausible because it's set up like a stage play. Definitely of its time, rather slow moving and actionless outside of the big scene where the end of the war is declared. Bennett ends up being the whole show as McCrea is bland and Cavanaugh horribly written for.
A silly melodrama that is completely unbelievable in the sense that Cavanaugh accepts Bennett's pregnancy of another man as if he was not at all jealous of it, and the continued twists just get more ridiculous. But it's a good looking film, only suffering a little by technology of the time that would shortly afterwards improve. That this was an original story seems implausible because it's set up like a stage play. Definitely of its time, rather slow moving and actionless outside of the big scene where the end of the war is declared. Bennett ends up being the whole show as McCrea is bland and Cavanaugh horribly written for.