Answers are kept from the audience for too long; even as the truth draws nearer, it's shrouded in enough obscuration that the big reveal can't possibly satisfy the hype.

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.

An ill-conceived political melodrama modeled after Citizen Kane.

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