Maureen O'Hara and Adolphe Menjou make marvellous performances in this rather confused play of confused relationships, where in the beginning everything seems all right as the mother is going to marry Herbert Marshall and Maureen has found her John, an Australian, they are in love and are going to be happy, and no one bothers about the creaking old aunt and her puritan objections to everything, but then something most unexpected happens, like a shocking surprise: the father comes home after having escaped from his asylum. He claims he is all right, but nothing can be all right any more from that moment on. Everyone's circles are upset, and the only way out of the sudden imposture of complications seems to escape. Here is entered a hornet's nest of complications and considerations, as the father's insanity is regarded as hereditary and incurable, there have been others in the family suffering from the same predicament, and this falls like a doom on the family. You will have objections to the credibility of such a plot, the matter of insanity in the family becomes like an obsession if not a superstition of a fixed idea, and those who just run away appear the sanest. But the acting is wonderful on all parts, there is lovely music as well, which actually plays an important part in the intrigue, this is a chamber play at its best, and it is enjoyable all the way.
