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Aptly titled transitional talker moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Dolores del Rio | ... | Lita | |
| Edmund Lowe | ... | Jerry Flanagan | |
| Don Alvarado | ... | The Spaniard | |
| Blanche Friderici | ... | Madame Durand (as Blanche Frederici) | |
| Adrienne D'Ambricourt | ... | Madame Pompier | |
| Ullrich Haupt | ... | Pierre Ferrande | |
| Mitchell Lewis | ... | Borloff | |
| Ralph Lewis | ... | Blochet | |
| Charles McNaughton | ... | Petey | |
| Yola d'Avril | ... | Gida | |
| John St. Polis | ... | Judge | |
| Henry Kolker | ... | Prosecutor | |
| George Fawcett | ... | Warden | |
| Victor Potel | ... | Sailor | |
| Harry Stubbs | ... | Sailor |
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Someone please decaffienate poor Delores Del Rio and open Mr. Lowe's eyes. Alas, no one uttered these directions to our leads. And so is spoiled a film of promise. How much cringing can one endure to enjoy some awesome sets from William Cameron Menzies? Edmund Lowe "sings", but I wouldn't call it music (embarrassing, perhaps). Miss Del Rio, clearly lost for how to act in a talking picture, emotes about 150 miles per hour. Scene after scene for the first 30 minutes is rasberry-worthy. This is such a shame, because work from the seconds and art direction invite scrutiny. A marvelous French village and prison are sumptuously photographed, and Mr. Lowe occasionally recovers the steely, resolved look that kept him popular through the '30's. Certainly, a textbook case of the birth of a new art form, and the difficulties the transition wrought.