The Devil And The Deep (1932)

Set in North Africa, a woman (Tallulah Bankhead) is driven to the brink by the insane (literally) jealousy of her husband (Charles Laughton), who constantly accuses her of non existent infidelities. But when she meets a handsome stranger (Gary Cooper), she's ready to make her husband's accusations a reality. Based on the novel SIRENES ET TRITONS by Maurice Larrouy, this overheated melodrama becomes increasingly bonkers until its submerged submarine finale with Bankhead escaping the flooding submarine in an evening gown, pearls and heels while breathing through an oxygen tank borders on the kitsch. Which is not say I didn't enjoy it. One can't help but feel sorry for Cooper caught between the dynamos that were Bankhead and Laughton, he doesn't have a chance! But it's that very intensity in the scenes between Bankhead and Laughton that carry the film, the romance between Bankhead and Cooper is rather middling. Directed by Marion Gerng. With a very young Cary Grant as a naval Lieutenant who gets the brunt of Laughton's wrath.