Ava Gardner: For me, the most beautiful woman in the history of motion pictures. Charles Laughton: For me, the greatest character actor who has ever lived. And Robert Taylor, for me, not the greatest of all lead actors after WWII, but pretty good at the kinds of roles he got, like this one. Plus, he made chain smoking look very cool on the big screen, before he died at 57 from lung cancer (of course he did!), after having smoked 3-5 packs a day for 40+ years. Also contains a nice squirmy turn by Vincent Price, long before his career as a character actor would be completely devoured by bloody, cheap horror flicks.
