Keeper of the Flame Movie Review 1942

Tracy and Hepburn manage to keep the murk of this story at bay as war correspondent Steven O'Malley (Tracy) is assigned to write about super patriot Robert V. Forrest, who's just died in an accident. Reclusive widow Christine Forrest (Hepburn) finally agrees to help O'Malley out but what our intrepid reporter discovers is that the hero was really a heel--something Christine still doesn't want known. Based on the novel by I.A.R. Wylie.

Distribution

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Available on VHS
Running time 100 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Director/Star Teams: Cukor & Hepburn, Front Page, Marriage, Patriotism & Paranoia

Screenplay

Donald Ogden Stewart

Cast

Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf, Margaret Wycherly, Donald Meek, Stephen McNally, Audrey Christie, Frank Craven, Forrest Tucker, Percy Kilbride, Howard da Silva, Darryl Hickman

Cinematography

William H. Daniels

Director

George Cukor

Music

Bronislau Kaper

Producer

Victor Saville, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures