ジョセフ・フォン・スタンバーグ
IMDB.com reports an average viewer rating (by 522 reviewers) of 6.4 points out of 10 possible. "New York Times" reviewer Dave Kehr described the film as "a handsome but conventional melodrama," but inferior to the contemporaneous rival Catherine biopic "The Scarlet Empress" (1934) by Josef von Sternberg.