Of not having been for the spectacular interpretation of both: Joan Crawford and Rossano Brazzi, it had been impossible to locate this movie in the database. In the Argentina it was exhibited as "La ragazza d'oro" or "The girl of gold" (I don't remember it exactly). I have not been able to see the original version, although the common thing was that many scenes "strong" was suppressed (to the style of what counts Cinema Paradisso), and inclusive he lost temper the translation of the dialogues. I saw this movie being still smaller than age but accompanied by my mother that achieved that they allowed me to enter to the cinematograph a rainy noon of winter. We had gone shopping to the great city and the trade closed at noon. She was fanatic admiring of both actors. The movie was "not capable it stops smaller than 18 years", and the only thing "boisterous" that was seen they were some "shirt twins" of him that Joan found in the girl's bed. But like they said "it was enough to understand the argument." Still to the 18 years one had enough "film culture", and it had fixed them to him to see "Wage of fear", the versions of "dramas" of Tennessee Williams and of Arthur Miller and until "God's litle acre"!, I believe to be able to say with enough foundation that "Story of Esther Costello" she had all the necessary one to be remembered as "a classic." It ignored that it was based on a real case, but the girl's history "blind-deaf and silent" it was taken with such a realism that the movie is really impressive.