review for Faithless on AllMovie

Tallulah Bankhead in a breadline? Yes, that is exactly where the great lady found herself in this Depression-era melodrama. Of course, hers was an MGM breadline and Max Factor hadn't completely abandoned her. Faithless was titled "Tinfoil" during pre-production, which is perhaps a more apt description of this story about a calculating heiress who loses everything only to find her heart. Although never abandoning her husky "mid-Atlantic" speech pattern -- Bankhead's desperate prostitute still says "cahn't" -- the grand dame's acting prowess stands her in good stead throughout and she remains believable to the very end. Robert Montgomery is his usual affable self, but comedian Hugh Herbert is surprisingly potent as Bankhead's nasty "sugar daddy." Faithless is pure soap opera, but as such it never fails to entertain.