State of the Union (1948)

Directed by

Frank Capra

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 04m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 75 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A man is persuaded to run for the Republican presidential nomination. The people around him scheme and manipulate to advance their own interests.

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What happens

State of the Union is a 1948 American drama film directed by Frank Capra about a man's desire to run for the nomination as the Republican candidate for President, and the machinations of those around him. The New York Times described it as "a slick piece of screen satire...sharper in its knife-edged slicing at the hides of pachyderm schemers and connivers than was the original." The film was written by Myles Connolly and Anthony Veiller and was based on the 1945 Russel Crouse, Howard Lindsay Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name. Capra and his screenwriters remained extremely faithful to the play, and, as the authors of the play had done during its two-year run, updated the script during filming to keep it timely. Spencer Tracy was the first choice of both Capra and the authors of the play to play the lead. Katharine Hepburn costars, and Adolphe Menjou, Van Johnson and Angela Lansbury play key roles. The film was Capra's only project for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It was also the second and final film to be made by Liberty Films before it dissolved in 1951. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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