Understandably, this 85 year old film is quite dated and stilted by now, but it nevertheless has an 8.2 rating on IMDb. Seemingly the entire Marion Davies fan club must have voted it a ten, because otherwise this vote makes no sense at all. Davies isn't even good in it, though she looks lovely. Leslie Howard is stiff, Richard Bennett has moments where he seems to be struggling to remember his dialogue, and Irene Rich and Douglass Montgomery are absent for long periods of time, their characters there simply to make plot points. Montgomery actually has some good scenes, but then at the end is involved in a climactic scene that really comes out of nowhere. Basically, this is just for Marion Davies fans, who apparently think anything she was in is gold.
Review of Five and Ten
