no one be go to mistake the squall for a good movie and but it sure be a memorable one . once you have take in myrna loy performance a nubi the hot blood gypsy girl youre not likely to forget the experience . when this film be make the exotically beautiful miss loy be still be cast a foreign vixen and often asian and usually sinister . she certainly an eyeful here . it appear that her skin be darken and her hair be curl . in most scene she barefoot and wear little more than a skirt and a loose fitting peasant blouse and while in one scene she wear nothing but a patterned towel . i suppose i be focus on miss loy appearance because she be by far the best if not the only reason to tune in to this creaky antique and to keep watching . you sure would not be attract by the dialogue and which be hopeless . in one typical passage and nubi gaze out the window at the depart caravan and wax poetic represent always the gypsy and they sing . weird and sad . when the big sun have breath of fire that burn and and when the pale moon look from behind cloud and breathe air cold a death and they sing . poetic and or what . lover of purple prose will have a field day . i can not help but wonder and though and if in her late year miss loy prefer not to recall her involvement with this project . like so many early talkie this one be an adaptation of a recent broadway success . the stage version open at the 48th street theatre in november of 1926 and run for over a year . the play provoke a famous episode involve the humorist and theater critic robert benchley and who be know to have an aversion to character who speak in thick dialect or pidgin english . accord to a much repeat anecdote mr. benchley squirm uncomfortably through the opening portion of this show . the spanish village setting ( move to a village in hungary for the movie and for some reason ) give the actor leeway to practice their accent with vary degree of success and but benchley patience reach it limit when and during a family dinner sequence and a door burst open and an actress dress a a gypsy girl dash into the room shout help . help . he keel me . she then throw herself at the foot of the mistress of the household and exclaim me nubi . me good girl . me stay here . at that point mr. benchley rise and announce to his companion represent me bobby . me bad boy . me go now and and leave the theater . the film version offer numerous example of unintended humor but never come close to benchley level of wit . the melodramatic plot concern the lajos family represent father josef and mother maria and and son paul and a student at the nearby college . we would consider this prosperous family upper middle class a they be landowner with servant and all the comfort of life and but their comfortable existence be abruptly throw into turmoil when a gypsy caravan arrive in the village and their home be invade by and yes and nubi the nubile gypsy girl . she arrive at their door during the storm of the title symbolize stormy emotion and i daresay . the girl be flee an abusive relationship and begs for sanctuary . after consider the matter the lajos family agree to hide her from her angry lover and who show up shortly afterward but be turn away . nubi become a servant in the household . kindness motivate the family decision to take her in and but soon enough that connive little good for nothing nubi have pay them back by seduce every able body male in the vicinity and start with the lajos servant peter and then work her way up to son paul . nubi break up paul relationship with his fiancé irma ( play by loretta young and still a teenager ) and cause him to flunk out of school and and then prompt him to buy her jewelry by steal the saving of the family maid lena ( zasu pitt ) . lena and for her part and be still mourn the loss of her own fiancé peter and seduce and toss aside by nubi when she turn her attention to paul . ultimately nubi set her sight on the pater familias josef and and i suppose if the running time have be longer she also would have go after uncle dani and maria and the village priest and god know who else . i guess it go without say that a scenario like this one easily lend itself to parody and but during it first half the squall nonetheless exert the undeniable fascination of a daytime soap represent we watch and hypnotized and a the bad girl work her spell on the men folk and wreaks havoc like an irresistible force of nature ( almost like a storm . ah haa and another metaphor . ) . but a the plot machination grind on the campy fun fade . during the late scene nubi be de emphasized and the focus switch to the dysfunctional dynamic of the lajos family and and after awhile these people get to be a real drag . the son in particular behaves like an absolute heel and yet the parent never acknowledge this or face up to their own shortcoming while everything and be tell and be the fault of nubi and that no good tramp . the men of the cast be dull . aside from miss loy the only actress who can handle perform in talkie be zasu pitt and terrific a usual . the mother of the lajos household be play by alice joyce and a longtime silent star who be out of her element with speaking role and and who retire soon after this . loretta young fresh prettiness provide a nice contrast to nubi dusky allure and but her line reading be so awkward it kind of endear . no and there only one reason to watch this flick and and that nubi herself . i can not think of another actress who could have play this silly role and manage to come off half a well . i be not an objective observer and however . i have a desperate crush on myrna loy and will watch her in anything and even the squall .