Maxwell Anderson’s play remains a good, solid drama – I was struck to see the 1939 Warner Bros film was reasonably faithful. However the film had far more vigorous handling, and better performers than the one here.
This is really a play that needs decent stars – it got it on film with Bette Davis and Errol Flynn, but not here, even though it has the Lunts, Alfred Lunt and Lynne Fontanne ("star of 23 of the Theatre Guild's finest plays").
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