i really like this film a lot . it be do in a very intimate and non hokey style and i felt i be right there live with the character and like maybe in the house next to mary astor . the dialogue be great and the character believable while it bring back a quieter time in american history when there be dream and romance and guilt in the air with plenty of space and time to feel them in . the photography be really rather beautiful . the support role from cagney and blondell be handle with aplomb and be fun . but for me the trio of astor and her husband and regis toomey and and withers really make the movie work . mary astor be so sensual a usual like she be with clark gable in red dust . it make it easy to see why she turn clark head away from jean harlow and wither away from blondell . she have such a simmer passion beneath her dignified surface . and withers be so cute and sweet and no wonder she fell for him . the scene deal with both of their guilt about cheat on her husband be do with grace and subtlety and seem very real . not many movie really pull something like that off too well . this one do .