Robleda and Elena meet at a Parisian costume ball. The masks soon come off and hours later the smitten couple watches the sun rise over the City of Light. Later that day, Robledo visits a friend and business colleague, the Marquis de Torre Bianca, and isstunned to meet the MarquiseElena.Greta Garbo won acclaim as the predatory femme in her U.S. debut The Torrent, so the studio turned to a similar role (and same source novelist) for her next film. A suitors suicide, rival swains cracking bullwhips,a catastrophic dam collapse all are part of the storm swirling around Elena as the story leaps from Paris to South America and back again. Garbo did not welcome the roles typecasting. But see the powerful finale and understand how she could take a partand make it heartendingly real. **Please be aware that this is a manufactured on demand disc that was created using a DVD-R disc. It should play in all standard DVD players.
