Micransix Crappy film

InformationRap This is one of the few movies I've ever seen where the whole audience broke into spontaneous, loud applause a third of the way in.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Janis One of the most extraordinary films you will see this year. Take that as you want.

tavm The stars of this movie caught my eye when I checked this out of my local library, otherwise, I probably would have avoided it since it was such an obscure title. I just watched it with my mom who enjoyed it. I did too though I noticed it skimped on some details concerning the way corruption is possibly handled in politics. But it's fun seeing Dean Martin, Susan Hayward, and Wilfrid Hyde-White spar on screen as well as Ralph Meeker and Martin Balsam also around when it comes time to pick the good guys and the bad. Don't know if Dean's character is based on anyone from my home state of Louisiana who was elected governor but it's interesting when he's compared to some of them in other reviews on this site. Anyway, that's a recommendation of Ada.

Robert Gold I enjoyed this Susan Hayward film, even if it had a few holes in its overall plot. No film can be truly bad with someone like Susan Hayward in it (and yes, I think that goes for Valley of the Dolls (1967) too), so you can't really lose if you watch a Susan Hayward film. She's confident, aggressive, smart, sassy, and attractive. As for the film itself, it had some gaping plot holes. For instance, why did Sylvester end up in a wheelchair being pushed around by a nurse? Was something cut and never explained in the final cut?Another hole: I believe that digging up the dirt that someone worked as a prostitute would be fairly easy to find. They had detectives in those days too. You would think that Ada's past would have caught up with her much earlier.Another thing: as one reviewer also said, in the story various characters speak of the rough economic times sort of alluding to the Great Depression, yet the movie looks like a movie from the sixties. What's up with that?Even though the ending is sort of Pollyannish, the film works in its Frank Capra kind of way showing that the common man can make changes in a corrupt political environment. It was interesting to watch the movie realizing that we are still in the same sad shape with many lying and evil politicians.The film is worth watching, even if it is rather forgotten.

edwagreen Move over Hilary Clinton and Condi Rice. You had Ada to contend with before your true political aspirations become known.Bo Gillis is running for governor. He is introduced to trollop Ada, and after a whirlwind romance, they wed. Ada is played by Susan Hayward, always at the top of her game. Even with her red hair ablaze, Hayward looked haggard and not in the best of health when she made this flick.Of course, Bo, (Dean Martin) is a fool duped to run for governor by political boss Sylvester, (a not so charming Wilfrid Hyde-White,) who does quit well in his part of a vicious back-room character who controls the state of business and will go as far as murder to make sure that he rules.Bo quickly realizes that something is wrong when a governor is just called upon to sign bills. The Lt. Governor tells him all about the Parks legislation. Sylvester makes sure that the Lt.Governor resigns. Suddenly, Ada is determined to be his replacement.When Bo is ready to buck Sylvester, he is nearly killed in a bomb placed in his car. As Ada had volunteered to be the lieutenant, Bo thinks that she is in with Sylvester.Along for the ride is Ralph Meeker, who plays the head of the police. He is as corrupt as they come. He even makes a play for Ada. Why didn't she try to unload him right there and then?What is amazing in all this is that Ada becomes very intelligent regarding the workings of government and legislation very, very quickly. She has her own ideas in mind to rid the state of Sylvester's bossism. She confronts certain ladies at a tea party and reminds them of their husbands ties to the state, thanks to the legislation on the books that allows them to do business with the state.Suddenly, in a scene change, Sylvester is shown in a wheelchair. What happened Syl? True though, you're as sly as ever.Bo is released from the hospital and in the capitol gallery views the showdown between Ada and Sylvester. Sylvester's old tricks will not prevail.Good for its depiction of corruption. Fairly good performances but storyline is so predictable.

lorenellroy Ada is Ada Dallas ,a young woman who earns a living as "a lady of the night " in a Memphis drinking establishment, where she meets the laconic and easy going Bo ,who is running for the governorship of a Southern state ,trading on a man of the people image and peppering his political rallies with songs. Ada is a determined and forceful woman who charms Bo and they soon marry to the disquiet of his political adviser, the manipulative Sylvester. Bo wins the election -thanks in no small measure to the less than ethical actions of Sylvester -and is installed in the gubnatorial mansion where he is treatd as a puppet by the entrenched interests ,all in thrall to Sylvester.When he makes a stand Bo is almost killed and it is Ada ,who as acting Governor sets out to reform the political system and attack its corruption. Susan Hayward as Ada dominates the movie giving a fine portrayal of a strong woman ,facing down the social snobbery of the ruling elite within the state and striving with might and main to overcome her past.It is a part tailor made for her and she plays it to the hilt.Martin is suitably self effacing as Bo and strong support comes from Ralph Meeker as a police chief on the take ,and from Martin Balsam as a P R man.Wilfred Hyde-White is miscast as Sylvester his pronounced British accent seemingly out of place. Its a bit reminiscent of the Frank Capra movies of the thirties in its take on political corruption and the ending is a little too pat . A solid 100 or so minutes and enjoyable for devotees of soap opera even so