Silent film star Richard Barthelmess (who had appeared in D.W.Griffith""sBroken Blossoms (1919)andWay Down East (1920)) returned to the screen in a comeback attempt after a three-year absence in the role of an ostracized and disgraced ace-flier (responsible in the past for causing the death of another aviator) who redeems and vindicates himself by flying on a dangerous mission.In an early continuing joke, the cuckolded husband cued the surreptitious lovers to privately rendezvous each night when he began Hamlet""s famous soliloquy "To be or not to be" on-stage, and Sobinski noisily departed the theater""s second row for a chaste tryst in her dressing room.It was thefirstDisney film distributed by RKO Studios (this arrangement lasted until 1953, when Disney established its own distribution company - named Buena Vista).Although most of the film was slow-building and subtle in its suspense in the catatonic mind of the fragile and doe-eyed heroine, there were three scenes with sudden shocks: (1) the razor slashing of the Landlord, (2) the two rape hallucinations, and (3) the jump-scare of the wardrobe-closet mirror.