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starring: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Forrest Tuckerdirected by: George Cukor
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780790748979
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0790748975
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 19, 2000
Running Time: 100 minutes
Sales Rank: 21000
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: 1942-12
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Description:
War correspondent stumbles on a little known fact that an honored American war patriot had in fact worked for the Fascists; wife urges writer to expose the facts for history.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - The best Tracy-Hepburn?
I'll answer my own question: in my opinion it is, even with the
stiff competition it gets from some of their other eight films.
It has a serious political theme, without the hooey that marred
the otherwise excellent "State of the Union." Speaking of her
late husband, a hero of World War I whom almost everyone considered
a great patriot, Hepburn says, "I saw the face of Fascism in my own
home...he didn't call it Fascism; he painted it red, white and
blue ... Read More
Rating:  - Political Drama
Very different from other Tracy/Hepburn films, both in style and substance. I have viewed this multiple times and thoroughly enjoy it. Strong political theme has kept this from being one of the top films of the era.
Rating: - Most serious, intriguing Tracy / Hepburn film.
One of my favorite Spencer Tracy movies, Keeper of the Flame is probably the most serious of all the films teaming Tracy with Katherine Hepburn, perhaps the only one that might fit the "noir" class. Mystery surrounds the death of national hero Robert Forrest. Reporter Steve O'Malley (Tracy) wants to do a biography of the late statesman, but the closer he tries to get to the family on their huge estate (sort of a gothic version of the Kennedy Compound), the more it seems Forrest's widow (Hepburn) ... Read More
Rating:  - Flameout
Hard to imagine Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn being lousy together: until you see them in this Popular Front catastrophe fron 1942. The conspiracy theory of those days among Hollywood leftists was that there were Fascist fifth columnists under every bed and they had to be rooted out. Reporter Tracy is rooting under widow Hepburn's bed to get the goods on her late husband. Tracy was not politcally sympathetic to the project and he looks thoroughly discouraged and annoyed from scene one. The ... Read More
Rating:  - Keeper of the the Flame reminded me vaguely of "Citizen
Kane". This film was made a year later in 1942. The techniques, the tone & general production just seemed similiar. Kate Hepburn is the widow of the famous, popular, charismatic World War I hero, Robert Forest. Apparently he's also become fabulously wealthy. A bridge washes out from a storm the night he is to meet with other powerful men to plan a takeover of the United States. He's a closet facist & very few people know. Anyway, he's basically dead in an auto accident before the movie starts. ... Read More
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