Tracy and Hepburn "Keeper of the Flame" ...good movie and....

[ElsewheresDaughter]

the speach kate gives just before she is killed at the end of the film about "facists" is so discriptive and relevant of bushco and his supporter today.... A journalist (Spencer Tracy) investigates the strange circumstances surrounding the death of a national hero. But he runs into a wall of silence. Everybody seems to hide something and the strange behaviour of the widow (Katharine Hepburn) puzzles him: her mourning seems not very deep. No wonder, since her husband planned to take the U.S. Government over with a fascistic coup, and this poor woman did what she considered her patriotic duty...
Good thriller that could have been great. The warning of totalitarianism is subtle - the young adherents who beleaguer Hepburn's home never use martial rhetoric - but the film is plodding and drags on. Tracy spends nearly the entire film running and sometimes riding on horseback from one house to the other, from one taciturn witness to the next. The denouement is squeezed into the last 10 minutes. Hepburn is even declared an american hero although her motives were not entirely selfless: her husband despised her because she could not bear him children. The flaws in this film are all the more disappointing, since, with this plot and this cast, the film could have been on the level of NOTORIOUS.

[montanacowboy]

1. Right!

Good film even with it's blemishes - I loved her speech. How timely.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

2. Kate's role that eerily foreshadows Jacqueline Kennedy in some regards

whom O'Malley comes to suspect of having murdered her husband. However, to his surprise, O'Malley discovers that Forrest's supernationalism was merely a facade for fascism. There is more going on here than meets the eye. Based an "unwritten" novel by I. A. R. Wylie