Apparently Dieterle writes about it in his autobiography and was very proud it was a critical and commercial success, and it got attention at a film retrospective in London in 1970 too. I guess it wasn't a flop, more sort of nobody knew what to make of it?
Barthelmess said "This is the most unusual picture I have ever made. It will be either a great attraction or a dismal flop."
-- Holy shit, I looked him up and Dieterle made a LOT of other films I've actually seen -- Midsummer Night's Dream, the Louis Pasteur and Zola biopics, the Charles Laughton Hunchback of Notre Dame. Had no idea they were all the same director! Love Letters, Blockade, Devil and Daniel Webster, Portrait of Jennie....I saw a lot of these either on afternoon movie matinees as a kid, or AMC in the eighties and nineties. A&E, too.
Now I want Strangers In Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933–1950, by John Russell Taylor. YOUR FAULT.
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Barthelmess said "This is the most unusual picture I have ever made. It will be either a great attraction or a dismal flop."
-- Holy shit, I looked him up and Dieterle made a LOT of other films I've actually seen -- Midsummer Night's Dream, the Louis Pasteur and Zola biopics, the Charles Laughton Hunchback of Notre Dame. Had no idea they were all the same director! Love Letters, Blockade, Devil and Daniel Webster, Portrait of Jennie....I saw a lot of these either on afternoon movie matinees as a kid, or AMC in the eighties and nineties. A&E, too.
Now I want Strangers In Paradise: The Hollywood Emigres 1933–1950, by John Russell Taylor. YOUR FAULT.