This is nothing more than the Hollywood machine cranking out melodramatic bilge to stuff into theatres between quality pictures.
Basically a Kay Francis film. Her supposed charms elude me at the best of times, and all her movies have the same plot: Francis is kept one degree of separation away from her true love. We're supposed to buy it as romantic tension. To be blunt she always comes across to me as ''woman who doesn't actually like men." Ahem.
Ian Hunter is the other lead, and he's as colorless as the walls in my condo. Quick: Name a memorable Ian Hunter role. You can't. Because no such thing exists.
Warner Brothers must have known this was a dog, so they stuffed Errol Flynn into it, hot off Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade. As usual, he's the best looking person in the entire movie, including the women. He falls for Francis, which is only believable if she's the only woman for a thousand miles, which she might be, not counting Flynn's sister. What his sister is doing at the outpost, I don't know and I don't care. Totally superfluous character.
There's very little action. Featuring about a dozen extras, at most.
This movie would only have ever been made in the studio era. These days an actor as red hot as Flynn was by that point wouldn't even return the call of whatever producer was pitching him this script.
Basically a Kay Francis film. Her supposed charms elude me at the best of times, and all her movies have the same plot: Francis is kept one degree of separation away from her true love. We're supposed to buy it as romantic tension. To be blunt she always comes across to me as ''woman who doesn't actually like men." Ahem.
Ian Hunter is the other lead, and he's as colorless as the walls in my condo. Quick: Name a memorable Ian Hunter role. You can't. Because no such thing exists.
Warner Brothers must have known this was a dog, so they stuffed Errol Flynn into it, hot off Captain Blood and The Charge of the Light Brigade. As usual, he's the best looking person in the entire movie, including the women. He falls for Francis, which is only believable if she's the only woman for a thousand miles, which she might be, not counting Flynn's sister. What his sister is doing at the outpost, I don't know and I don't care. Totally superfluous character.
There's very little action. Featuring about a dozen extras, at most.
This movie would only have ever been made in the studio era. These days an actor as red hot as Flynn was by that point wouldn't even return the call of whatever producer was pitching him this script.