The film, directed by Stephen Roberts, is a progressive provocation riding solely on its considerable shock value as well as a signature role for actress Miriam Hopkins.

Essential Pre-code cinema? Yes.

Made with the full knowledge of how society at large felt about "girls like her," and those stereotypes of the "loose woman" are consistently interrogated and subverted.

quite a good film apart from its scandalous reputation, which tends to overshadow any of its other accomplishments