One of the worst films Gary Cooper or Ingrid Bergman ever made. What were they thinking with this? I adore Ingrid. She's very high on my list of favorite actresses. But she is absolutely dreadful in this! She overacts and chews scenery like few I've ever seen. Poor miscast Gary Cooper looks like he doesn't know what he got himself into. Don't even get me started on Ingrid's friends -- Flora Robson in blackface and a dwarf. I expected Bela Lugosi and the Bowery Boys to pop up at any minute!
The script is cringeworthy. Watching actors you respect say painfully bad lines is not fun. You could tell in some scenes Cooper wished he could be anywhere else but filming this mess. To make a bad movie worse, the darned thing goes on forever. A running time of over two hours in the 1940s was usually reserved for epics. Makes me wonder if WB foolishly thought this was going to be another Gone with the Wind. Anyway, a total dud but fans of these two great movie stars might want to check it out just for curiosity's sake.
The script is cringeworthy. Watching actors you respect say painfully bad lines is not fun. You could tell in some scenes Cooper wished he could be anywhere else but filming this mess. To make a bad movie worse, the darned thing goes on forever. A running time of over two hours in the 1940s was usually reserved for epics. Makes me wonder if WB foolishly thought this was going to be another Gone with the Wind. Anyway, a total dud but fans of these two great movie stars might want to check it out just for curiosity's sake.