This film doesn't have too much going for it on paper with a director better-known for musicals (Vincent Minelli), an aging leading man, Robert Taylor, playing against type as a villain, Katharine Hepburn trying to act the hysterical female, and finally Robert Mitchum in a minor role as her potential love-interest (when he was a good ten years younger than she). The fact that it works at all is down to the standard of the acting and the production values for which MGM was famous.
Even in his pre-World War II roles I never fancied Taylor who might have been "pretty" but who always struck me as a light-weight actor. Now if we are talking about the young Tyrone Power in the same period....
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