An early triumph for Katherine Hepburn who stars in this tale of acceptance between the have's & have not's in the early part of the last century. Alice is a free spirit among her family of hard working laborers who feels out of sorts when dealing w/the rich & well off gentry they come in contact with so when she falls in love w/the son of her father's rival, will class politics have a say in matters of the heart. An early effort by George Stevens (Giant/Shane) feels as such since the acting is paramount to the success of this endeavor but what let's it down is the fey, ambiguous way this motion picture is cobbled together. Feeling neither overly stage bound or merely a by the numbers tract lifted from the novel (written by Booth Tarkington) finally undoes whatever forward motion this film gets going on. Co-starring Fred McMurray in one of his early turns, this may be a case of an effort which needs a decent revisit.
Review of Alice Adams
