The best type of over-produced rococo trash. Downton Abbey can only dream of the muck this film runs its tie and tails through.

Holy racial awkwardness! Yeah, this is a decent melodrama, and the prototype for the Gainsborough brand. But I have to mention this: the movie features a child in blackface in a important role. Now, that's pretty awkward, especially considering the year. But it gets worse. In one scene, the child attends a performance of Othello! There's a white character, who's only wearing blackface for his performance. So there's "real" blackface, and "fake" blackface? It's the absolute fucking height of absurdity.

A historical drama combined with a World War 2 beginning and end, I liked the way that the two stories were tied together. I was a bit surprised by the way in which marital infidelity was shown, although due to the restrictions that applied to film then one knew the outcome of the marital unfaithfulnesses (SPOILERS - no happy ever after). James Mason and Stewart Granger were excellent as the two leading men and we'll excuse the blacked up boy and use of the N word because that was acceptable 70 years ago.