Again, Greta Garbo is a magnificent vamp, but one with a heart this time. And Conrad Nagel is superb. I had thought him kind of blah and awkward in "The Divorcee", but in this film, he was handsome and very talented—you could tell what von Raden was thinking just by a subtle look.

The version I saw had a really weird score. Parts of it were good, but then other parts had saxophone bits that were way too reminiscent of bad 80s sensual thrillers. "Beyond the Rocks" and "The Mirror Crack'd" also had similar saxy scores.

Again, Greta Garbo is a magnificent vamp, but one with a heart this time. And Conrad Nagel is superb. I had thought him kind of blah and awkward in "The Divorcee", but in this film, he was handsome and very talented—you could tell what von Raden was thinking just by a subtle look.

The version I saw had a really weird score. Parts of it were good, but then other parts had saxophone bits that were way too reminiscent of bad 80s sensual thrillers. "Beyond the Rocks" and "The Mirror Crack'd" also had similar saxy scores.

[Garbo] I had a realization watching this film. I like silent films when there is a great screen presence being shown, a Charlie Chaplain, a Buster Keaton, or a Greta Garbo. I lose interest when that actor isn't on the screen. I didn't care for Metropolis or Battleship Potemkin or any of this movie when Garbo wasn't on screen.

I really enjoyed the first half hour watching the actor and the audience fall in love with Garbo. She was great. After that half hour though, the dumb plot got involved and there were many scenes without Garbo. I lost interest in the film numerous times then.

A really beautiful Greta Garbo film, the whole of the first half hour as Garbo and Conrad Nagel meet and fall in love has to be amongst the most beautiful sequences in cinema history and the sequence where Nagel is drummed out of the army is vastly moving as is the finale. Fred Niblo's direction is glorious the art of silent cinema at it's best. The story is a fairly conventional spy story and is a little slow at times, but this is a very worthwhile silent film.

Serviceable but somewhat dull romantic spy thriller. Garbo is lovely but not much fun. Nor is her character much of a spy; her every emotion is etched on her face, and killing a man nearly causes her to faint. Virtually all of the film's suspense hinges on documents and notes being passed back and forth, which isn't terribly exciting. It's an almost entirely humorless affair that could have done with a dose of wit and playfulness.