A just ok thriller starring Gary Cooper and Madeleine Carroll.
It's heavy on the atmosphere, which I liked, but it never manages to work up much excitement. And it's also a bit rough around the edges, with some sloppy editing that maybe suggests it was churned out pretty quickly.
Akim Tamiroff was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in the first year of that category's existence, for donning yellow face and playing a Chinese villain. The film was also nominated for Best Cinematography in a year that only saw three nominees in that category, and for Best Scoring, which went not to the film's actual composer (Werner Janssen), but rather to the studio's music department head, Boris Moross.
Grade: B.
It's heavy on the atmosphere, which I liked, but it never manages to work up much excitement. And it's also a bit rough around the edges, with some sloppy editing that maybe suggests it was churned out pretty quickly.
Akim Tamiroff was nominated for a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in the first year of that category's existence, for donning yellow face and playing a Chinese villain. The film was also nominated for Best Cinematography in a year that only saw three nominees in that category, and for Best Scoring, which went not to the film's actual composer (Werner Janssen), but rather to the studio's music department head, Boris Moross.
Grade: B.