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Errol Flynn takes a rest from his grand adventure films with a light romantic drama. Flynn is elegant and gentle, but this role doesn't take advantage of his energy as a actor. This is well shot. No secret Frank Borzage knows what he's doing behind the camera. However the story is not quite translate well enough onto the screen. Becomes so melodramatic and serious that it becomes almost corny. Definitely doesn't hit on the right emotional strings regardless of how professional everything looks.

Borzage + Flynn should be gold, right? It's a bit of a snoozer though.

The usual Lloyd C. Douglas mix of romantic sentiment, self-sacrifice and pop mysticism, directed with subtlety and complete conviction by Frank Borzage. Flynn carries himself with a self-deprecatory gallantry that tempers his character's nobility, making him a more likable Douglas hero than the brittle Robert Taylor or the brooding Rock Hudson. I just wish he could have lent a little of his humility and humor to Hardwicke, whose solemnly oppressive goodness comes close to ruining the movie.