Maybe it was just the copy of the movie I watched, but most of the landscape looked fake to me, often purple. The plot was melodrama, with Fuller, Daly, and Fiske all commenting on how Leah wound men around her finger—even though it seemed to me that all she did was try to save her husband who just berated her. I think we're supposed to assume Hooker and Leah ended up together (the film is called a romance), but there wasn't much chemistry to go on. It seemed like the entire plot hinged on the sultry allure of women and gold, although nobody seemed to end up with any god, and although I like Susan Hayward, she didn't act very alluring. It felt like a fable more than a story. Cooper did have one good line at the end: "If the world was made of gold, men would probably die for a handful of dirt."