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Title: "Garbo talks." In essence, a Eugene O'Neil play.
Review: This film is the great Eugene O'Neil in all his dark glory. Moody, dark, slow-paced, and bearing his intense psychology, it is not a film for all audiences or tastes. In addition to the great Garbo, is a magnificent perfomance by the silent film legend Marie Dressler. Before her death, she would make 3 classics with Wallace Beery, one of which was FDR's favorite film of all time: "Tugboat Annie." Her banter with Jean Harlow in "Dinner at Eight," was peerless and hysterical.This film is a one of those "transition" pieces from the silent to the talking era, and as such, carries aspects of both periods.Well worth seeing and having in one's collection.
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