Shortly before his emigration to the US Detlev Sierck made this movie. For those who love his later American movies it will be a little bit disappointing.

The story is very melodramatic but not very convincing. A man makes bad use of his fathers money for the sake of a Vaudeville singer. She is therefore sent to Australia for imprisonment. The man joins the army and they meet again...

Nevertheless you will recognize some elements of Sirk's later cinematography also in this movie, like the frequent use of mirrors an element which was later adapted by his great admirer Fassbinder). A ridiculous element of Nazi censorship is the fact that the dancing girls are forced to dance to a mock version of Offenbach's Can-Can. 

 
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0029819/


Director:
Douglas Sirk


        Zarah Leander	 ... 	Gloria Vane
	Willy Birgel	... 	Sir Albert Finsbury
	Edwin Juergenssen... 	Gouverneur Jones
	Carola Höhn	... 	Mary Jones
	Viktor Staal	... 	Henry Hoyer


[Movie]
Valid : Yes [AVI]
Duration : 01:37:48
Movie complete : Yes

[Video]
Resolution : 720x512
Codec : XviD MPEG-4 codec
FPS : 25,00
BitRate : 1310 Kbps
Quality Factor : 0,15 b/px

[Audio]
Codec : ATSC/A-52 Dolby AC3
Number of channels : 6
Sample Rate : 48000 Hz
BitRate : 224 Kbps