Keeper of the Flame (1943) is a dramatic film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Hepburn plays the widow of a famous civic leader who, prior to his death, had secretly planned a coup d'état against the government of the United States. Tracy plays a former war correspondent who intends to write a flattering biography of the dead man, only to unearth a plot to cover up his true plans. The film was directed ...
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Keeper of the Flame (1943) is a dramatic film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Hepburn plays the widow of a famous civic leader who, prior to his death, had secretly planned a coup d'état against the government of the United States. Tracy plays a former war correspondent who intends to write a flattering biography of the dead man, only to unearth a plot to cover up his true plans. The film was directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart.
Stephen O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) is a war correspondent who leaves Europe and returns to the United States to write a biography of Robert Forrest. Forrest was an industrialist who founded a wildly popular patriotic boys' club known as the Forward America Association. Forrest recently died when he drove his car over a bridge on his property which had been washed out by a recent storm. O'Malley attends the funeral, which he finds to be artificial and staged. Forrest's secretary, Clive...
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