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Keeper of the Flame

Keeper of the Flame (1942)

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Release Date: Dec 1, 1942 Wide

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Average Rating: 3.6/5
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If you're wondering what Citizen Kane might have looked like had it been produced by MGM, we submit for your approval Keeper of the Flame. War correspondent Spencer Tracy is assigned to write the life story of a recently deceased super-patriot. One would suppose that the much-beloved decedent's life would be an open book, yet his widow Katharine Hepburn refuses to release any details concerning her late husband. Tracy gains Hepburn's confidence, and she agrees to help him with his article.

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Drama, Mystery & Suspense, Classics

Donald Ogden Stewart

Oct 23, 1991

MGM

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Director Cukor thought the plot was fraudulent, and the film is the worst collaboration of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in her first role as a "mature" woman.

August 8, 2006 Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com
EmanuelLevy.Com

An ill-conceived political melodrama modeled after Citizen Kane.

January 24, 2005 Full Review Source: Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

Middle-brow MGM variant on Citizen Kane. More interesting than good.

August 2, 2004
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)

Audience Reviews for Keeper of the Flame

An intense, yet also extremely heavy-handed political drama. It leads on like a film noir with the writer played by Tracy as the detective, trying to figure out a mystery about the famous Mr. Forrest, and then becomes something very outrageous in the end. I enjoyed it, but it is a little too unbelievable, if you see it you know what I mean. Overall it is pretty good, though.
September 26, 2012
ajv2688

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Somewhat weird downbeat drama, definitely an oddity from Tracy/Hepburn. But still worth a viewing.
November 22, 2008
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Foreign Titles

  • Die ganze Wahrheit (DE)
  • Keeper of the Flame (1942) (UK)
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