This movie is guaranteed to offend people of Color, Southerners, Women, and people with a conscience.
It has what has to be one of the most preposterous plots ever inflicted on the American Movie Audiences. Marion Davies, was a woman noted for her ultra light colored gray blue eyes. In this plot she is a Civil War era spy who put on a dark wig, darkens her skin slightly and passed for a black laundry maid. As the maid, she giver her alter ego all of the very worst stereotypes of a 1930s "Black Servant". It is shamefully bad. White Southerners are treated only marginally better. And don't get me started on the liberties it takes with American History.
There is really only one reason to see this movie -- Gary Cooper. This is one of his early movies and he is amazingly handsome here. Fast forward through the Marion Davies bits and linger on the scenes with Gary Cooper.
It has what has to be one of the most preposterous plots ever inflicted on the American Movie Audiences. Marion Davies, was a woman noted for her ultra light colored gray blue eyes. In this plot she is a Civil War era spy who put on a dark wig, darkens her skin slightly and passed for a black laundry maid. As the maid, she giver her alter ego all of the very worst stereotypes of a 1930s "Black Servant". It is shamefully bad. White Southerners are treated only marginally better. And don't get me started on the liberties it takes with American History.
There is really only one reason to see this movie -- Gary Cooper. This is one of his early movies and he is amazingly handsome here. Fast forward through the Marion Davies bits and linger on the scenes with Gary Cooper.