it unlikely that anyone except those who adore silent film will appreciate any of the lyrical camera work and busy ( but scratchy ) background score that accompany this 1933 release . although sound come into general use in 1928 and there be no more than fifty word speak to tell the story of a woman and unhappily marry and who desert her husband for a young man after a romantic interlude in the wood . the most vividly photographed scene have the jealous husband give a lift to the young man for a ride into town and proceeding to drive normally until he realize the man be his wife lover . in a frenzy of jealousy and he drive at top speed toward a railroad cross but change his mind at the last moment and lose his nerve . it probably the most tension fill scene in the otherwise decidedly slow moving and obviously contrive story . hedy lamarr be give the sort of close up treatment lavish on marlene dietrich by her discoverer and but her beauty have not yet be refine by the cosmetician a they be when she be transport to hollywood . her performance consist mostly of look sad and morose while mourn the loss of her marriage with only brief glimpse of a smile when she find her true love ( aribert mog ) and the handsome young stud who retrieve her clothes after a nude swim . the swim scene be very brief and discreetly photograph and and not worth all the heat it apparently generate . the love make scene and later on and be also artfully photograph with the sort of lyrical photography evident throughout most of the film artfully so . more be leave to the imagination with the use of symbolism and this be the sort of thing that have others proclaim the film be some kind of lyrical masterpiece . not so . it disappointing and primitively crude in it sound portion ( include the laborious symphonic music in the background ) and certainly miss lamarr be fortunate that louis b. mayer saw the film and on the basis of it and give her a career in hollywood . he must have see something in her work that i do not . it apparent that this be conceive a a silent film with the camera do all the work . the jarring worker scene at the conclusion go on for too long and be a jarring intrusion where none be need . it fail to end the film on the proper note .