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Release Date: 1942 Cast: Audrey Christie, Forrest Tucker, Darryl Hickman, Frank Craven, Richard Whorf, Spencer Tracy, Margaret Wycherly, Stephen McNally, Percy Kilbride, Katharine Hepburn
Categories: Movies, Thriller, Mystery, Film noir, Black-and-white Keeper of the Flame (1943) is a dramatic film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Hepburn plays the widow of a famous civic leader who has suddenly died in an accident. Tracy plays a former war correspondent who intends to write a flattering biography of the dead man, only to find that his death is shrouded in mystery. The film was directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart.
When national hero Robert Forrest is killed in an automobile accident, the entire United States goes into deep mourning. Admirer and renowned journalist... MORE
Keeper of the Flame (1943) is a dramatic film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM). It stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Hepburn plays the widow of a famous civic leader who has suddenly died in an accident. Tracy plays a former war correspondent who intends to write a flattering biography of the dead man, only to find that his death is shrouded in mystery. The film was directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart.
When national hero Robert Forrest is killed in an automobile accident, the entire United States goes into deep mourning. Admirer and renowned journalist Stephen O'Malley (Spencer Tracy) returns from Europe to write a biography of the great man. Among the throngs covering the funeral, he finds his old friends and fellow reporters, Jane Harding (Audrey Christie) and Freddie Ridges (Stephen McNally). They remain after the rest of the press leave.
Forrest's widow, Christine (Katharine Hepburn), refuses to speak to reporters throughout the proceedings. However, O'Malley befriends youngster Jeb (Daryl Hickman), son of the gatekeeper of the Forrest estate, Jason Rickards (Howard Da Silva). The grief-stricken boy shows him a way into the mansion, where LESS
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