this be an amazingly well film early talkie adaptation of the eugene oneill play . it major drawback be a static camera and and a a result it come off much of the time a the filmed play it be and which be a pity and for it a good piece of primitive moviemaking and make at a time when sound be pose all kind of technical problem and and a a result most film be experimental whether or not this be their maker intention . garbo be a mysterious and charismatic a she be in her silent film and and her entrance be still classic . her voice be strangely deep and almost boyish and which only enhance her already seductively eccentric persona . a her boyfriend and charles bickford be appropriately virile and he be apparently bear craggy and a perfect counterpart to the divine garbo . his irish brogue be not bad at all and and he seem always a natural man of the sea and very oneill like in his independent and brooding nature . a garbo ( very ) confuse father and george marion seem truly from another time . he have the sort of face and voice and open and unmannered and totally without guile that have vanish from the earth . marie dressler be also in the oneill swing of thing . her blank expression and intensity around the eye speak volume and a she play her boozy character a a woman at time border on psychosis . poetic license and perhaps and a this be not in the script and but we can forgive miss dressler excess while she be too good at it not to . the story end with a movement to the next thing and a distinct from resolution and which isn not the author cup of tea while and those who like their film neatly work out in the end will be disappoint by the absence of any real surprise . in anna christie we be in oneill country and a place of sea and storm and fog and a feeling of all pervading and damnable uncertainty and which we would now call ambivilance and or anxiety neurosis . rather than analyze this mood the author simply and wisely present it and a weather and land and ocean and people intertwine and address one another in a unique language we feel priveleged to have hear .