So much going on here...where to start.
First, it was filmed in a contentious election year-FDR vs Hoover,Second, it featured Warren William as a slimy campaign manager willing to tell Any Lie to get his man in office. It become readily apparent the man,'Hal Blake', has Zero scruples and morals, and the election is about himself scoring big. Any convenient lie, any convenient misdirection...but these days we are so used to that it hardly registers with us in 2020..Bette is a bit awkward in her pre-Jezebel identity, but it offers glimpses of the beguiling woman she would soon become.
And Guy Kibbee is wonderful. "Yes, but then again....No". Huh?
Review of The Dark Horse
