"Crawford and Haller make it into a dreamy wallow in velvety masochism." - Dan Callahan

Absolutely wonderful music. Appropriately enough for a movie about a concert violinist, the music is an integral part of the story. Good performance from John Garfield as the cocky young musician with comic relief from an very entertaining Oscar Levant. Great violinist Isaac Stern handles the fiddle playing duties. Crawford does her best to make drunken misery look glamorous. Her performance is a true camp classic. A minor classic of the romantic melodrama genre.

Layers of intensity coupled with heavy music. Quite a good result

Joan Crawford suffers and suffers... one of those melodramas that overdoes the heart-wrenching just enough that it's pretty damn funny if you're in the right mood.

Passes the time.