SpecialsTarget Disturbing yet enthralling

Payno I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Scotty Burke It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

Skyler Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Edgar Allan Pooh . . . because it includes Steve Bannon's entire Breitbart Game Plan for the 2016 U.S. Rigged Election. Unearthed by Red Commie KGB Chief Vlad "The Mad Russian" Putin, KEEPER OF THE FLAME gave the wily Russian the winning playbook to share with his quarterback Bannon as a word-for-word playbook for establishing a U.S. Fifth Column in a nefarious plot hatched up for KEEPER OF THE FLAME in the early 1940s to enable America's "Enemies Within" to bamboozle at least 37% of our Nation of Sheep by pulling the wool down over the eyes of the ONLY voters who are counted (because they've bought up all the guns). As Katharine Hepburn's widow "Christine" spills to Spencer Tracy's investigative journalist "Steve" beginning at 1:31:10, her late devious Fascist husband "Robert's" plan was to "play hate against hate" and destroy every U.S. Democratic Institution until Fascist Dictator Robert was had his foot on America's throat. Putin merely had to substitute a failed casino operator\fraudulent "university" founder\self-confessed sex pervert\thrice-married "star" of an Emmy-losing "Reality" television show for KEEPER OF THE FLAME's Golden-Tongued War Hero to make "Robert's" dream a Reality. Obviously, the traitorous U.S. Oligarchs bank-rolling Robert grossly OVER-estimated that for which their Red State Nazi Confederate pawns would settle in selling out the unarmed American Majority.

edwagreen During the war years, the theme of fascism trying to get a hold in America is depicted in this film.An American hero dies in a car accident,and in trying to write about his life, reporter Spencer Tracy discovers some very interesting but troubling facts about the man, Robert Forrest. Along the way, he has to deal with the man's mysterious wife, Katharine Hepburn.Darryl Hickman is effective as the child who cries and whines about not being able to warn the guy about the weakness of the washed out bridge where the crash occurred.The film often is brooding and is hurt by the fact that it basically takes place at the mansion where the deceased lived with his wife.Richard Whorf steals the show as the fascist's secretary, willing to commit mayhem to silence those discovering what has been going on.

jhkp One of the more interesting features of this film is that much of it takes place outdoors, yet a lot of it is shot on the sound stages at MGM and on the back lot (the church used for the funeral sequence is the one at the end of the "Andy Hardy" street, for ex.) For the most part, this gives the film a kind of claustrophobic feeling which actually works in its favor. The rain, the lightning, even the trees, the sky, the bridge on the forest road, the cabin in the woods all seem fake - special effects, miniatures, cycloramas, sets - perfectly lit and shot to suggest the real thing, while also suggesting theatre. Somehow a perfect setting for this drama with its theatrical intensity.Cukor was an odd choice for this material, except that he had directed Hepburn several times before and was probably her favorite director. He brings his usual sincerity to the work, focusing less on polemics as on the emotional toll Forester's life and death has taken on his family and "fans." Again, the artificial sets and lighting, the shooting on back lot and sound stage, work extremely well to create the sense of an isolated, small community who worked and lived in Forrest's shadow, either worshipful, fearful, or skeptical of his intense presence.What's very interesting is the way the man was perceived from afar, vs. close to home. I have often thought of this film when I've seen real-life heroes and wondered exactly what they're really like, what their home life is like, and how they really interact not with the masses but with the actual people around them. While most are not like Forrest, it's still a good idea to keep the lessons this film brings up in mind.Typically, Cukor does not use the usual MGM stock company for his supporting cast but seems to try to find fresh faces. Audrey Christie appears here in her first film, for example, and Percy Kilbride has one of his first important roles. Richard Whorf and Frank Craven are other faces whose main experience was on the stage at that time.An absorbing film with a particularly great performance from Tracy and another amazing one from the young Darryl Hickman.

Stormy_Autumn It was Thursday evening and "CSI"s on 'CBS' at 9 p.m. PDT. And there's a Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn drama on 'TCM' (7 p.m.). One I haven't seen. It's "Keeper of the Flame" (1942) and I've considered watching it. The description looked pretty darn good but will the timing work out?Tracy portrays Steve O'Malley a journalist who is assigned to write a biography of a beloved war hero who was accidentally killed in an auto-running-off-the-bridge accident. Katharine Hepburn is the Widow Forrest who has learned much about her deceased husband. At first stand-offish, Christine doesn't want to help Steve write the biography. Her reasons are unknown. With as many odd and unusual people in the drama questions are popping up all over. O'Malley, being the excellent journalist he is, has began to figure out things are not what they seem. Why? If you get a chance you must see it. The ending has quite the twist.Oh, BTW, the timing was great...So was the movie