Keeper of the Flame is a dramatic film from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer . It stars Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy. Hepburn plays the widow of a famous civic leader who has suddenly died in an accident. Tracy plays a former war correspondent who intends to write a flattering biography of the dead man, only to find that his death is shrouded in mystery. The film was directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart. When national hero Robert Forrest is killed in an automobile accident, the entire United States goes into deep mourning. Admirer and renowned journalist Stephen... O'Malley returns from Europe to write a biography of the great man. Among the throngs covering the funeral, he finds his old friends and fellow reporters, Jane Harding and Freddie Ridges . They remain after the rest of the press leave. Forrest's widow, Christine , refuses to speak to reporters throughout the proceedings. However, O'Malley befriends youngster Jeb , son of the gatekeeper of the Forrest estate, Jason Rickards .
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| Release date: | December 1942 |
| Directed by: | George Cukor, George Stevens |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Victor Saville |
| Music by: | Bronisław Kaper |
| Cinematography: | William H. Daniels |
| Screenplay by: | Donald Ogden Stewart |
| Genre: | Thriller |