“Both of these hardy perennials were filmed three times: in the Twenties, in the Thirties, and then updated in World War II. Here we have the ‘middle' and best versions.”

"A marvelously theatrical melodrama, full of complex double-agentry, and Erich von Stroheim (reputedly given the freedom to write and design many of his own scenes) lecherously ogling Constance Bennett's underwear and dreaming wistfully of a honeymoon in the Black Forest!" --W.K. Everson