The love that lifted a man to paradise…and hurled him back to earth again!

This film is based on W. Somerset Maugham's classic novel of a young medical student's strange infatuation with a cheap and vulgar cockney waitress (Bette Davis). The infatuation turns into a mutually destructive affair.

This is the film that brought Bette Davis to fame and secured her future roles as a tough, domineering woman. Fine acting by the entire cast, with Davis, an absolute knock-out.