“With his next two films, Night Watch and Love and the Devil, Korda continued his career as a director of undistinguished programme pictures. Both films were concerned with married women who are discovered in a bedroom with a man other than their husband (the bedroom ‘discovery’ featured in several of Korda’s Hollywood films). In each case someone is shot (either the discovered or the man involved) and the disgraced women are in the end able to avert further calamity through self-sacrifice. Love and the Devil, Korda’s last silent picture, is important as the last film in which Korda was to direct Corda. The Korda marriage had for some time suffered under the strain of two strong and ambitious artistic temperaments. In an interview in 1927 Maria made it clear that she accepted Alex’s direction only in the studio, that she played the dominant role once they were off the studio floor. ‘At home… I am the director’, she is quoted as saying”.

(Karol Kulik, Alexander Korda. The man who could work miracles, W. H. Allen, Londra 1975)