A richly picturesque, impressively framed drama.

Sincere, devout, expensive-looking and in result quite dreadful; attempting realism and achieving only the pastel prettiness of a badly-printed picture book.

Director John Huston seems to have sacrificed almost everything else in his desire to achieve pictorial loveliness in a fancied-up biography of Townsend Harris (woodenly played by John Wayne).

One of John Wayne's worst and most embarrassing films, in which he is totally miscast and misdirected by Johnn Huston.