I saw this movie last week for the first time in a few decades--I don't recall it being shown at Hepburn festivals in the seventies and eighties.. Apart from an occasional heavy-handed Reference to WWII, I was surprised by the intelligence of the dialogue, ad the lack of any overt "communist'message that some film historians ascribed to it.Of course when Ogden Stewart was a Communist he had no ealistic understanding of Stalin's Russia.
Hepburn's part was stronger--and longer- than I recalled though the Breen office's requirement that she die for letting her husband get killed looks contrived.The movie would have been more popular if she and Tracy had been allowed to develop more of a personal bond. Also the photography was SO dark that she sometimes looked downright anorectic!!
Hepburn's part was stronger--and longer- than I recalled though the Breen office's requirement that she die for letting her husband get killed looks contrived.The movie would have been more popular if she and Tracy had been allowed to develop more of a personal bond. Also the photography was SO dark that she sometimes looked downright anorectic!!