This is very interesting since it is all historical. Ferdinand de Lesseps (Tyrone Power) is sent on a diplomatic mission to Egypt, leaving behind his sweetheart Eugenie de Montijo (Loretta Young) to marry Napoleon III, while another sweetheart is following him to Egypt (Annabella) who happens to inspire him to dig the ditch of the Suez Canal, a grand idealistic project of uniting the west with the east. Many oppose the project, however, especially the British under the government of Gladstone, and Napoleon III who believes his engineers when they tell him the waters of the Indian Ocean will drown all the Mediterranean, if the canal is realised. However, his beautiful wife Eugenie, Ferdinand's former sweetheart, persuades her imperial husband to sanction the project, and in England by chance Disraeli takes over the government and makes Queen Victoria a partner in the project. It's a great and interesting story, the actors are all doing well, while perhaps Annabella makes the best impression ending up as Mrs Tyrone Power. There are no objections against the film, no blatant historical inaccuracies, Loretta Young's dresses are magnificent, and in spite of many democratic objections against Napoleon III, including those of Victor Hugo, he actually did well for France for two decades, while his great uncle, Napoleon the Great, only stayed in power for 15 years and ruined France in the bargain by the wars he kept enforcing, while Napoleon III at least kept his peace as long as he could.
