Temptation

A striking Victorian beauty (strikingly beautiful Merle Oberon, fittingly gowned by Orry-Kelly) deserts her dreary husband (dreary George Brent) - an Egyptologist - for flashing-eyed Egyptian (an over-the-top Charles Korvin). A mistake - as was the film, which resembles an attempt to revive the dodo in returning to an old novel and play, already made as a silent called Bella Donna with Pola Negri in 1923. A melodramatic period farrago, almost idiotic enough to be mildly enjoyable, but directed at sleepwalking pace by Irving Pichel.