The film stars Ann Harding, Adolphe Menjou, Melvyn Douglas and Guy Bates Post.

Therese accompanies her fiancée captain Andre Verlaine to his new posting at a French penal colony in Indochina.

Decades later, Melvyn Douglas recalled that he was called in to replace Adolphe Menjou (who appears in the film).

[4] Turner Classic Movies cites a Variety report that Douglas replaced Robert Williams.

[5][6] Douglas claimed that Ann Harding was so unhappy with the picture that she asked the studio "to let her buy the negative and destroy it because she feared it was so bad.