Let there be no doubt about it. Vivien Leigh is as fine an actress as we have on the screen today. Maybe even the finest, and that's a lot to say.

This romantic tear-jerker -- for one can hardly call it a tragedy -- is saved from degenerating into sheer idiocy by competent all-round acting.

A glossy MGM weeper. A chick flick from the golden era.

Glossy, sanitized remake of the brilliant 1931 James Whale film