This film can be viewed as a message film if you read a lot into it. My take is the message of Hunters Christ like character is pretty thin. Clark Gable has a strong performance in this one, directly following his Gone With The Wind performance. In this one, he actually is a criminal unlike GWTW where Rhett Butler was a cad, but not a convicted felon.
Joan Crawford is quite amazing in this as she is a beautiful in this one as in any of her films. The version I watch on TCM recently has several scenes where she has a torn dress & is lifting it to reveal some really nice legs. The main weakness in this movie with her character is here she is roughing it on an island & escaping into swamps with Gable, and yet she is still wearing high heels and is shown adjusting her lip stick and make up.
Peter Lorre as M'sieu Pig is in prime form here as the man who could rat out Gable who everyone thinks is dead. Crawford offers to give herself to Lorre to protect him so he can run away to Cuba. Ian Hunter plays his character just understated enough that he doesn't preach.
In the end, this film ends quite well though it does not settle exactly what is going to happen to Gable when he fore goes his Cuba escape and turns himself in to face the music.
Joan Crawford is quite amazing in this as she is a beautiful in this one as in any of her films. The version I watch on TCM recently has several scenes where she has a torn dress & is lifting it to reveal some really nice legs. The main weakness in this movie with her character is here she is roughing it on an island & escaping into swamps with Gable, and yet she is still wearing high heels and is shown adjusting her lip stick and make up.
Peter Lorre as M'sieu Pig is in prime form here as the man who could rat out Gable who everyone thinks is dead. Crawford offers to give herself to Lorre to protect him so he can run away to Cuba. Ian Hunter plays his character just understated enough that he doesn't preach.
In the end, this film ends quite well though it does not settle exactly what is going to happen to Gable when he fore goes his Cuba escape and turns himself in to face the music.