It takes more than lovely scenes to make a really satisfactory entertainment.

Outside of its romantic side, the subject's greatest asset is the truly fine performance of Dolores Del Rio.

This is Vidor at his most erratic, combining bathetic plotting and uninflected stereotypes with some smouldering pre-Code sexuality and the exercise, intermittently, of a powerful cinematic imagination.

...a pervasively underwhelming and uninvolving endeavor that strikes all the wrong notes right from the get-go...