Poor sound quality, broken by frequent and confusing flashbacks, and spoiled by unnecessary and frivolous farts of profanity. Ten uninteresting minutes was about nine minutes more than I could endure.

In 1934, rich London widow Alice Eve throws a wild costume party for her friends. She is very attracted to Wilf Scolding, with whom she is trying, with the aid of commissioner Trevor Eve, to discover who murdered her husband.

Visually, this is a sumptuous effort, reminiscent of DeMille's MADAM SATAN, albeit without a dirigible in a lightning storm. Miss Eve is also a lot sexier than DeMille's lead, although 87 years later, there's really no way to compare them directly The movie uses that sexual heat, as well as a lt of red herrings provided by Miss Eve, to obscure what is going on, to the film's detriment. Still, there is Miss Eve to keep the male gaze riveted.

In my previous review I wrote it was a long time since I watched a real stinker. I guess I managed to watch two stinkers in a row after watching Bees Make Honey. This one is just a very boring and dull movie. Some people found it hilarious. I guess I have another definition of hilarious. I didn't laugh once for the simple reason that it's just not funny. The acting wasn't bad if you don't mind watching something that looks like a play. They tried all kind of different camera techniques which didn't work at all. Sometimes trying to be clever has the opposite effect, like in this case. It's just not the right kind of story for these techniques. The sound was also not great, going from normal volume to way too silent, bad editing if you ask me. If you like boring movies where almost nothing happens, where the dialogues sound like they speak another language than ours, where they're going on and on about things you could have resolved in two seconds, then be my guest and watch this. But if you look for quality then just skip this one.