Bette Davis won her second Oscar for her performance as a wilful Southern belle in this handsomely-mounted melodrama which Warner Bros gave to the star as a consolation prize for not getting the coveted role of Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind. Jezebel, incidentally, beat GWTW into the cinemas. Another Oscar, for best supporting actress, went to Fay Bainter as Davis' sympathetic aunt. Director William Wyler, borrowed from Samuel Goldwyn for the picture, does an excellent job - although neither he nor Max Steiner's swelling score can make Davis' last-reel redemption through love entirely convincing. Some great individual scenes, though, make this a magnetic attraction.

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