Colin Clive (Bruce) is a paranoid, jealous, controlling bad-arse to his wife Jean Arthur (Irene). She flees to Paris for a divorce but Clive isn't having it. He pursues her to set her up and catch her in the arms of another man so he can cancel out her divorce request and keep her by his side forever. However, head waiter Charles Boyer (Paul) happens to be around and throws a spanner in the works.
After you watch this film, you think back and realize that a lot has happened! It's a complicated tale but it's manageable to follow taking the audience through romance, murder & disaster a la Titanic.
Unfortunately, the film is a bit sappy in places, especially both sequences where Boyer and Arthur engage is some crass ventriloquism with a grotesque drawing on their hands of a face called "Coco". They talk to Coco as a 3rd person to ask each other about their relationship and it is corny and diabolical. Lose a point for this nonsense.
Colin Clive ups the ante whenever he is on screen, propelling the story with his evil intent and without him, things would be bland. A true villain.
After you watch this film, you think back and realize that a lot has happened! It's a complicated tale but it's manageable to follow taking the audience through romance, murder & disaster a la Titanic.
Unfortunately, the film is a bit sappy in places, especially both sequences where Boyer and Arthur engage is some crass ventriloquism with a grotesque drawing on their hands of a face called "Coco". They talk to Coco as a 3rd person to ask each other about their relationship and it is corny and diabolical. Lose a point for this nonsense.
Colin Clive ups the ante whenever he is on screen, propelling the story with his evil intent and without him, things would be bland. A true villain.