An early screen adaptation of Carmen which, contrary to popular belief, was a novella before it was an opera. Lubitsch presumably wanted a nondescript character to play the tragic military officer Don Jose Navarro so that his complete capitulation to the wiles of Pola Negri's peasant girl would be believable, but he probably got more (or less, depending on how you look at it) than he bargained for with Harry Liedtke, who is so bland that it's difficult to pick him out from the scenery. Navarro's downfall is clumsily handled and unconvincing.
Review of Carmen
