I could not believe how this script could have been accepted by Republic for a movie until I read that the female lead was a favorite of the studio's founder and owner. He actually married her a few years later. Need I write more? It is one of the worst scripts ever to make it to celluloid. Here are a few lines:The doctor says, "You see, I watched him grow up in this world and now I'm faced with the unhappy task of supervising his departure from it." or the brother saying, "Her smile when she gives it is an instant of complete happiness. The touch of her hands is a lifetime of pleasure. Make her my wife will be achievement of all the beautiful dreams I've ever known." The Chinese servant opines on love, "The better she is, the harder to lose. ... Some day everybody lose everybody. That is why Chang never fall in love with girl again. If she mean all the world to you and you lose her, then you have lost the whole world world. If she mean more than life to you and you lose her, then you have lost all of life. But if she mean more than your soul to you and you lose her, then you have lost your own soul." And as a final example, the females exchange words, "You mean George McAllister? -- I don't mean George Washington." No-one ever talked like these people.
The plot is convoluted with Broderick Crawford in a trench coat looking like wandered in off a different sound stage as if he were in another movie, just to complicate matters. It is difficult to care about any of the characters because they appear so unreal. They are all saying lines that are stupid and none of them are acting much as there is no call for them to show much emotion. How could they? They story is too bizarre. You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear, as the Chinaman might say.
The plot is convoluted with Broderick Crawford in a trench coat looking like wandered in off a different sound stage as if he were in another movie, just to complicate matters. It is difficult to care about any of the characters because they appear so unreal. They are all saying lines that are stupid and none of them are acting much as there is no call for them to show much emotion. How could they? They story is too bizarre. You cannot make a silk purse from a sow's ear, as the Chinaman might say.