Spitfire

Katharine Hepburn portrayed everything from queens to a Chinese peasant in her splendid career; but her most unusual role may just be Trigger Hicks in Spitfire. The elegant; cultured Hepburn plays an ornery; rock-chuckin’ mountain gal who finds God — and a knack for faith healing — in a pack of stolen Bible cards. But when she exercises her self-declared miraculous powers on a sick baby; the local folks figure Trigger is a force of supernatural evil. Two fine leading men; Robert Young and Ralph Bellamy; lend skilled support in a picture that’s Hepburn’s all the way: “After the story of Spitfire is forgotten; memories of Miss Hepburn’s performance will remain” (The Times (London)).