This would have been a perfect role for Ingrid Bergman, and Cornell Borcher actually looks like her at times, and does almost as well as Ingrid Bergman would have done. It is a very sensitive part in a very sensitive story, and it is a very good story, actually based on something of Luigi Pirandello, the dramatist and Nobel prize winner, so no wonder the story is fascinating. Rock Hudson makes one of his usual standard stolid routine figures, trying to look like Cary Grant but entirely without the Grant charm, while the real charmer and actor here is George Sanders in one of his best roles, as eloquent as ever, in a very suave European continental character of cosmopolitan refinery, and he is the character you will remember from this film. The scenes in Vienna are the best, a long flashback, and Douglas Sirk was well at home there, having started in the German film business before like so many others he left for America under a new name for a new career - his real name was Hans Detlef Sierck, he worked in Germany until 1937, making a star of Zarah Leander among others, and left mainly because of his second wife, who was Jewish. His films are always stylish with excellent music, he worked carefully and meticulously, making melodrama his speciality, of which this film is an outstanding and wrongfully underrated example.