By the time she made this incredibly powerful and sharply scripted film, set during the American Civil War, Bette Davis had already won two Oscars, for 'Dangerous' in 1935 and 'Jezebel' in 1938, and was coming into her prime as a Hollywood star. She showed herself capable of even greater emotional depths here in the role of Charlotte, the sweet young woman who has an illegitimate child by her cousin's jilted fiancé and has to hide the fact by running an orphanage. One of seven films she made with handsome nice guy George Brent, it's a story that tugs at the heartstrings and provides one of Davis's great star turns. Miriam Hopkins almost matches her as the cousin, and has a great last line. You could be streaming with tears by the end.


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