Acting
Ann Sothern smolders before she became a comedy queen.
Direction
Lederman crams a feature's worth of drama into 65 minutes.
Production
Warner Bros. backlot ocean looks surprisingly wet and wild.
Director
D. Ross Lederman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Ann Sothern's final film at Columbia before she jumped to RKO and found her comic groove as Maisie.
Pre-Code films like this slid under the Hays Code radar with their frank treatment of adultery and working-class grit—by 1936, this kind of moral ambiguity was already vanishing.
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