French soldier Cornell Wilde returns from India to find his estate seized for taxes and sold to Jean Wallace. She's willing to swap it for the fabulous Star of India, one of those jewels praised for the idol's head. Tax farmer Herbert Lom may have it, and the visit of Basil Sidney as Louis XIV may offer a chance for derring-do, swordplay, romance and humor. It offers it, but despite a try by Miss Windsor to suggest Marie Windsor, this is another potted faux-Dumas swashbuckler from Arthur Lubin. It's one of those movies you can watch every four or five years with the vague sensation of having seen it before.
Review of Star of India
