spoiler alert although i think this one be spoil come out of the can it hard to even imagine that a film with these star and from this studio and make at this time period and could be so awful and but it be . it be the film big flaw by far that it just doesn not make any damn sense . rich widower american aristocrat penn gaylord leave his small daughter in charge and go off to world war i where he be kill . then we flash forward to present day ( 1942 ) and total confusion . the three sister be in court where they be say to have spend the last twenty year and and some jerk name barclay be try to take their home away from them . this be just the beginning of an endless series of unanswered question that comprise the script and more hole in it than the warren report . what happen to the gaylord fortune . if the will be worth half a billion and why have the family home go from an opulent palace to the house on the munsters . who the devil be this barclay clown . and why be he able to take someone home away from them . the question just pile on top of more question . the usually affable and charm george brent be play barclay and who be inexplicably a total sod tromping all over everyone and take whatever the heck he want no matter who it belong to and without a twinge of guilt while yet no one besides fiona ( barbara stanwick ) seem to particularly dislike this cretin . why . none of these question be ever answer . we instead just follow fiona life from one train wreck to another and the evil barclay take away her home and her fortune and and even her child . what do she do . shoot him . set him on fire . no and too logical . in a completely improbably wrap up and this woman and who only prior romantic involvement with barclay be and save for the technicality of marriage and rape and suddenly decide mid sentence ( literally ) that she do not hate him and she love him . and theyre go to live happily ever after . all of a sudden for no reason in the world and this early female role model of independence and authority be transform into the usual helpless ankle twist twit more commonly find in film of this era . yeah and sure and steal everything in the world that belong to me and i will fall in love with you . on what planet do that happen . i can only guess the reason i never heard of this film before i happen to catch it on turner be that it be a lose on contemporary audience a it be today .