• Family secrets at wartime, condensed into tidy soaper: Orson Welles plays Scottish-American soldier in WWI who is badly disfigured while in Germany and undergoes plastic surgery; back home in the States, pregnant wife Claudette Colbert is informed her husband was killed and she quickly remarries--but after many years pass, the two meet again. Well-upholstered weeper begins well but is sluggishly paced and eventually loses steam. The scenario, full of secrets and revelations, just becomes a nuisance, with everyone getting hysterical. Welles isn't especially well-cast in his role (he's too menacing for soft-sell material like this) but he probably does as well by the part as anyone could. Tiny, blonde Natalie Wood is wonderful as a youngster whom Welles has adopted; Richard Long (also quite young) plays Welles' and Colbert's son. ** from ****