Screenplay by Sydney Boehm and Lester Cole from a story (and play) by Alan Clark and Bradbury Foote. Shortly after, Cole was jailed by HUAC for refusing to name names and blacklisted.
A brain-damaged ex-soldier appears to have killed his wife. In a mental hospital he receives treatment and falls in love. Neat, eh? (It sounds a bit far-fetched when you put it that way.) The ending somewhat stretches credibility. Good, though, in its acknowledgment of the huge mentally ill population of prison, the unsensational treatment of the patient characters, something rarely seen...
Bernhardt made Juke Girl (1942) with Ann Sheridan and Ronald Reagan, Devotion (1946) with Ida Lupino and Olivia de Havilland, A Stolen Life with Bette Davis (1946), Possessed for Joan Crawford (1947), and Miss Sadie Thompson with Rita Hayworth (1953). Last film in Germany was Der Tunnel (1933); also known for French thriller Carrefour (1938) remade as Dead Man's Shoes in the UK (1940) and Crossroads (1942) in the USA, with William Powell and Hedy Lamarr.
Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall, Dorothy Patrick, H.B. Warner. Crisply photographed by Paul Vogel, music by Bronislau Kaper. MGM.
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