Features the first screen depiction of schizophrenia in Jean Rouverol's character.
In this film Charles Boyer portrays an esteemed French psychiatrist who comes to the States to head an exclusive mental hospital in the country. Twenty years later he would play a role that seems like it could be continuation of this one in La tela del ragno (1955). There he portrays an esteemed French psychiatrist who had come to the States to head an exclusive mental hospital in the country some twenty years earlier, but is losing his grip.
One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since; its earliest documented telecast took place in Seattle Monday 31 August 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7).
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on January 28, 1940 with Claudette Colbert and Charles Boyer reprising their film roles.
"The Screen Guild Theater" broadcast a 30 minute radio adaptation of the movie on September 10, 1945 with Claudette Colbert again reprising her film role.