Warner Bros.Directed by Sam Wood
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Nominated: Flora Robson, Best Supporting Actress
This is the one where Gary Cooper shows up at a masquerade ball carrying a dead dwarf. Ingrid Bergman, who is Swedish in real life, plays a French woman in America. Her accent is hopelessly wrong. She has a creole maid in heavy makeup and the aforementioned dwarf is her footman. Gary Cooper is a stoic, awe shucks mam, cowboy who falls for her dainty French aristocratic ways. The film does have one of the best recreations of early New Orleans atmosphere that I can recall seeing in a Hollywood production. However, half of the film takes place in upstate New York, where the most interesting thing that happens is a spectacular head-on collision between two model trains.
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Nominated: Flora Robson, Best Supporting Actress
This is the one where Gary Cooper shows up at a masquerade ball carrying a dead dwarf. Ingrid Bergman, who is Swedish in real life, plays a French woman in America. Her accent is hopelessly wrong. She has a creole maid in heavy makeup and the aforementioned dwarf is her footman. Gary Cooper is a stoic, awe shucks mam, cowboy who falls for her dainty French aristocratic ways. The film does have one of the best recreations of early New Orleans atmosphere that I can recall seeing in a Hollywood production. However, half of the film takes place in upstate New York, where the most interesting thing that happens is a spectacular head-on collision between two model trains.
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