The read
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do. It runs a compact 1h 10m.
Synopsis
Bar entertainer Zara is a discontented alcoholic who is pursued by many men but lives with novelist Carl Salter. One day, Tony shows up on Salter's estate claiming that Zara is actually Maria, the wife of his close friend Bruno, claiming that her memory was destroyed during World War I. Zara doesn't remember but leaves with Tony to Salter's dismay. Bruno, now an officer in the Italian Army, tries to coax Maria's memory back on his large estate. No one is really sure if Zara is Maria, and when Salter shows up with a mental case from Trieste that he claims is the real Maria, everyone on Bruno's estate is desperately searching for the truth.
Ratings
Critics rate it 23 points higher than audiences do.
14 audience votes
Key crew
- George FitzmauriceDirector
- Gene MarkeyWriter
Cast
- Greta GarboZara, a.k.a. Maria
- Melvyn DouglasCount Bruno Varelli
- Erich von StroheimCarl Salter
- Owen MooreTony Boffie
- Hedda HopperInes Montari
- Rafaela OttianoLena
- Warburton GambleBaron
- Albert ContiCaptain
- William RicciardiPietro
- Roland VarnoAlbert
- Reginald BarlowDr. Reinhardt
- Max BarwynCafe Headwaiter