State of the Union

State of the Union (1948) starring Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Van Johnson, Angela Lansbury. Directed by Frank Capra. Tracy plays Grant Matthews, an industrialist running for president, and Hepburn plays his wife and conscience. Lansbury plays the "other woman," a powerful newspaper owner who wants to see Matthews elected -- and acts as a bad influence on him. This movie was adapted from a play, and seems very stagey to me. There's a lot of fast talk and gobbledy-gook about politics and politicians, which seems slightly dated in this Internet age. It was good to watch Tracy and Hepburn together on screen, but this film didn't have much else to recommend it to me. It did have subtitles for the hearing-impaired, but no closed captions. Grade: B