An odd movie. The story is actually solid I think the treatment was badly handled and miscast. Everyone wears too much lederhosen.
Ida Lupino feels all wrong - too modern. Errol Flynn needed a moustache. I buy him as a selfish bohemian but not a composer. It needed more music. Eleanor Parker is stunning. Maybe if she and Lupino had swapped roles it could have been more effective. Gig Young's part needed to be bigger.
The basic love triangle of this is fine - Lupino loves Flynn who loves Parker who backs off when he realises she's loved by his brother Gig Young. But it goes all over the shop. Gets more silly as it goes on.
Warner Bros lost the ability to make this sort of melodrama. Maybe Edmund Goulding could have made it work.
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