Word: miscasting
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Aside from being crippled by a glaring miscast in the hero's role, the picture suffers obviously from the fact that the love theme is reduced to the familiar formula--boy meets girl on Hays Office terms. The ending of the picture is a complete reverse, Clive lives and makes an honest woman of Pure by marrying her. Thus what might have been a moving and convincing story of two lives, becomes a confused and completely banal hodgepodge...
Tyrone Power as the embittered and moody Clive Brooks is as miscast as any actor in Hollywood could be. Gone is the novel's prematurely aged man who has endured hell at Dunkirk, and who, feeling that his nation's social system is not worth fighting for, has deserted from the army. Instead, the audience is treated to the spectacle of a dashing lover who tries his hardest to be convincing with consistent failure...
...that we go in for kicking ex-glamour girls on their way down. Miss Dunne's abortive attempt to play a native young thing from the sticks seeking adventure and romance in the Big City is Hollywood's blunder, not her own. Inescapably forty-ish, she is woefully miscast as the giddy paramour of the Brothers Duncan, acted by Robert Montgomery and Preston Foster...
...Bankhead as the lead-villainess, "Regina Giddons," probably because it's impossible to play essentially the same role in a dozen movies without some decline of conviction and zest. The supporting parts are superbly rendered, many by members of the original Broadway company. Herbert Marshall is, for once, not miscast, and performs admirably as the tragic dying husband and prey of "Regina" and her brother-vultures...
Giants. Overlord of all Pennsylvania from the '80s until 1904 was Matthew Stanley Quay, a stocky strategist with miscast eyes who made greed a fine art. Matt Quay, who shared national Republican power with Ohio's Mark Hanna, had a simple philosophy: "When a politician dies he leaves only what is found on him.'' Boss Quay sold offices, gambled with public funds, looted banks, racketeered in public contracts, drove at least a dozen men to suicide, ran Pennsylvania with a precise regard for 1) personal pelf, 2) the Republican Party as the guarantor of the protective...