The story about Gloria Wandrous, a promiscuous fashion model, who falls in love with Weston Liggett, the hard drinking son of a working class family who has married into money.
The dialogue is rough. Let's say O'Harrowing. And the ending is absurd. But so is most of it for that matter. It's the living it up that gets you in this film.
– Bosley Crowther,
New York Times,
9 May 2005
rotten:
Once thought of as racy and adventurous in its treatment of sex, this turgid nonsense about a high-class whore with love in her heart has dated atrociously.
– Geoff Andrew,
Time Out,
24 Jun 2006
rotten:
Under director Daniel Mann's guidance it is an extremely sexy and intimate film, but the intimacy is only skin deep, the sex only a dominating behavior pattern.
– Variety Staff,
Variety,
26 Mar 2009
rotten:
It's just about as awful as you'd expect, despite the presence of two first-class screenwriter.