[justlurking]

Just FYI: the screenwriter was known to be a leftist -- Louis B. Mayer (the studio head) hired him for that reason. Mayer apparently regretted it, and stormed out of the New York City premiere, "enraged at the way the film seemed to equate wealth with fascism".

Republican members of Congress apparently felt the film bordered on propaganda, and demanded future guidelines from the Hays Commission.

[Hildy]

Interesting!

[elisheba]

Yes, this is an old leftie, delusional, nightmare movie. The plot is really stupid. Blatant leftwing propaganda.

In the film, Katherine Hepburn loyally tries to cover up her rich and powerful husband's right-wingism which has somehow managed to endanger the country and perhaps the world. I believe that the husband has died, and she is protecting his memory.

This movie was made when the Soviet Union was the huge and overwhelming threat to the entire world, yet it pretended that massive danger came exclusively from some phony, right-wing boogeyman types. It was very similar to the recent Obamunists attempt to depict fictional, rightwing terror groups in the U.S. today in order to deflect public attention from Muslim terrorism. Katherine Hepburn was an east-coast-background, Hollywood liberal and was happy to star in this ridiculous film.