Basically interesting just to see Tallullah Bankhead acting in one of her few film roles. Alas, she is miscast as a society girl who loses all her money in the Depression. She spars with her ad-man boyfriend (the always-great Robert Montgomery) but will not give up her lavish lifestyle to live on his money and so will not marry him. When they both lose it all in the crash and Montgomery sustains injuries when he gets caught in a labor riot and is unable to work, Bankhead must take to the streets as a prostitute to support them. In a few years, this kind of character would be run down by a bus instead of persevering, damn that Production Code. Anyway, Montgomery is handsome but clueless as the ethical ad man (and he must have been bored out of his mind at these romantic leading man roles MGM stuffed him into; no wonder he fought so hard to play the psychotic decapitator of "Night Must Fall"!) but plays his role well. Bankhead, a stage actress and undeniably decadent and somewhat louche in her private life, does not come off well in this self-sacrificing role. However, she does have some good lines, my favorite one being when she is introduced to Montgomery's brother: "Oh, a metallurgist! What kind of metal do you urge? Does it succumb easily or does it take a lot of coaxing?" Fabulous!
Review of Faithless
