Loretta Young won the Oscar for her portrayal of a clear-thinking Swedish girl who works for politician Joseph Cotten and ends up running against him for Senator! Film begins when she's given a lift to Capitol City by sleazoid Rhys Williams, who - drunkenly - crashes his car... and she ends up paying for the damage? Che cazzo? Stupid woman.
Anyway to make ends meet she works for Charles Bickford, who's head of household for Cotten and mother Ethel Barrymore. "If you can work for Bickford you can work for anyone", is the allegation made, though he doesn't seem particularly hard to work for. It's another good performance from him; we last saw him in the Mitchum medical picture Not As A Stranger but he can also play exceedingly nasty, viz. Fallen Angel. He was Oscar nominated. And Barrymore's predictably good too.
The Swedish brothers come in to the fore in a knockabout ending. An enjoyable picture.
Written by Allen Rivkin and Laura Kerr, suggested by a play by Juhni Tervataa aka Hella Wuolijoki which had been bought by Selznick originally as a vehicle for Bergman. Music by Leigh Harline, skilfully photographed by Milton Krasner, produced by Dore Schary for RKO.
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