Nils Asther gives a superb performance; one which will put him right back into the rank of front-line actors -- just where he was before talkie time.

The war scenes are sufficiently exciting to stir most anyone's blood. On the whole, it is good film entertainment, with only a thin plot to hold together the picturesque scenes.

Overshadowing all else in this picture, adapted from the novel by the same name, is the superb work of Nils Asther.

It could be Capra’s answer to the glamour of Josef von Sternberg’s films with Marlene Dietrich. Cinematographer Joseph Walker gives the film a mix of the exotic and the romantic, an alluring beauty both intoxicating and forbidden.