Of Human Bondage

This third version of Somerset Maugham's autobiographical story is clearly the least successful, marred by production troubles and the miscasting of the leads. This time Harvey is the clubfoot who turns to medicine after failing as an artist. He leaves Paris for Edwardian England, where he begins his studies and meets Novak. This coarse cockney waitress becomes the great passion of Harvey's life. Although impressed by his social standing, Novak rejects his love and marries another man. Soon after, Harvey takes up with writer McKenna (in a solid performance) and, under her guidance, returns wholeheartedly to his studies. But this romance is short-lived, as Novak ret...