She (1935) review

An American, played by Randolph Scott, and family friend (Nigel Bruce) travel in search of the "Flame of Life" - as Scott's ancestor did 500 years prior - which supposedly is the key to immortality, only to find in an icy frontier a crackpot Ice Queen (Helen Gahagan) who loves Scott and wants him to stay forever. The effects are decent for a movie made in the mid-thirties and the sets are inventively gaudy, but it's obvious more thought went into the design than the ridiculous dialogue and laughable performances (Scott's line readings are a particular hoot). It's corny (if cute) in its romantic ideals - Helen Mack's character makes an argument for the joy of aging with the person you love as opposed to being trapped with a harpy looking young forever: boo, evil sorceress, hooray wrinkles!