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As a big fan of Miss Wright ,the great character actress of Wyler's ,Walsh's or Hitchcock's classics , I was looking forward to watching this movie ;but as far as she's concerned ,I was disappointed :her part is underwritten , her screen presence is about half of Lew Ayres's ; her character is cardboard ,cast in the widowed-woman-with-child mold and predictable to a fault (although her evolution is preposterous: first she treats Ayres as a slave , then overnight she falls into his arms)

On the other hand ,the male part is much more interesting : a man consumed with remorse ,who tries to find the truth and makes another faux pas ; a man who does not know where he stands anymore who confesses to a priest : the movie is a long flashback ,and can be considered ,from that point of view ,as a moderately successful film.