Miriam Hopkins plays a lower-class young English girl in the mid-19th century, desperately trying to escape her social condition through the manipulation of various people she connects with through a more well-to-do friend she had in school.
Hopkins is very good in this role, but the story is somewhat muddled. It baffles me why a girl of that era who wants to break into higher society gets herself involved with (and, in one case, even married to) a bunch of men who, while they look good on the outside, have few resources of their own. Mind you, it's necessary to establish Becky as a master manipulator. After all, if she simply married money, the story would be pretty much over. But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
By and large, the movie is what you would expect from the early-mid 1930's. It's not especially well-lit, and it's marred by some of extreme over-acting that I find typical of the era. It's OK for an afternoon if you have nothing else to do, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it.
I give it 3/10.
Hopkins is very good in this role, but the story is somewhat muddled. It baffles me why a girl of that era who wants to break into higher society gets herself involved with (and, in one case, even married to) a bunch of men who, while they look good on the outside, have few resources of their own. Mind you, it's necessary to establish Becky as a master manipulator. After all, if she simply married money, the story would be pretty much over. But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.
By and large, the movie is what you would expect from the early-mid 1930's. It's not especially well-lit, and it's marred by some of extreme over-acting that I find typical of the era. It's OK for an afternoon if you have nothing else to do, but I wouldn't go out of my way to see it.
I give it 3/10.