i have no expectation for this movie before i saw it and expect a high regard for gary cooper and director king vidor and and neither disappointed me in this nice effort from them . a mention before and this story concern marry writer gary cooper one not unlike f. scott fitzgerald who have lose his groove and and have his late novel reject by his publisher . he be force to give up his manhattan apartment and move back to the abandon family homestead in connecticut . there he meet a community of polish immigrant and and slowly fall in love with beautiful young polish girl anna sten and who he have hire to help around the house . my first think about this movie a i watch it and be that the lead man be more beautiful than the lead lady and a gary cooper certainly look fabulous and be photograph with great sensitivity . cooper in his modern american clothes certainly have the upper hand over sten and who be always wear dowdy traditional eastern european dress and hat . she be almost completely cover up in these costume for the duration and and it would have be a treat to see her in american garb . the speed that cooper character fall in love with the young girl be questionable and especially consider he have a beautiful and funny and intelligent wife play by helen vinson . perhaps it the polish girl youth and innocence he attract to and but i think he not as heroic a the movie maker intend him to be . the wife do leave him alone in snowy new england to work on his novel and but he needn not stab her in the back by fall in love with another . cooper character come off somewhat of a cad and and i never be able to sympathize with him enough to make me really care about his final happiness . the movie paint the wife a a shallow but glamorous socialite and care only for the next party of get away weekend at his expense . but at about two third into the movie and after she have read his manuscript and she have a strong and wonderful scene with sten where she discuss the hypothetical ending for the novel . vinson really shin in this scene and which include one incredibly long take with at least three page of dialog . i think both vinson and the often malign sten make it all work very nicely . this be the moment when you can see the strength under the airy facade and of vinson character . the movie take a very dark turn partway through and and some of the scene really rise to the level of verbal and physical abuse and something i hadn not expect to see . but the production value be great and greg toland camera work shine and and the location and set be really convincing . but what somewhat bother me in it intensity be these two scene with sten and her family . how brutal be the scene where her father and ralph bellamy want her to watch bellamy slaughter pig . i mean she say about 5 time that it make her sick and and they keep insist . and then finally after she run off she and the audience get to hear the sound effect of pig squeal a theyre be butcher . didn not expect this movie to go there . and then when her father and who be introduce a an amiable figure and get so angry at sten that he slap her face with such intensity . seem pretty violent by today standard . finally and i admire and still wonder about the ambiguous end . obviously and the polish girl have die . vinson be stand next to cooper a he gaze out the window . she speak to him and then he remember aloud how sten would look come up to the house . he see her in his imagination . the camera pull back and and now vinson be no longer in the room or the scene . do she leave him after all . do she decide she do not want to stay with a man who have such a love for another woman .