The dialogue is competently handled, so that, while the spectacular episodes are eye-filling, the story always holds one's attention. There are huge settings of the palace and the dungeons, the size of which enhances the value of the action.

A splendid effort.

The opulent and extensive splendour of the production may do something to remove the advantages of concise unity or to make them inappropriate, but even so a little precision is something for which to be thankful.

Mr. Skinner is altogether superb, as everyone must have expected he would be. But the handicap of an absurdly lavish, moviesque production proves a little too much for him.