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Note the year in which it was filmed: 1961. Full Kennedy era. Notice the clean and critical political air that was blowing in the USA. The argument is a profound defense of democracy and a painful denunciation of political corruption. For that alone it deserves to be remembered. But the time it was made makes it a kind of historical document. Susan Hayward was a very good actress and Dean Martin I think he did his best to live up to it. Impossible to forget Martin Balsam, Wilfrid Hyde White and director Daniel Mann. Thanks to all of them we recovered a bit of that clean air that was breathed thanks to John F. Kennedy.

If you were to see only one movie in your life, this is the movie.

Interesting, important, intelligent argument. Superb performances. All put at the service of a human, moving, essential and necessary message.

In the tradition of "Elmer Gantry", "Inherit the Wind", "My Mother's Smile", "Häxan", this film must be in the list of the ten best films in the history of cinema.

A separate comment: this movie is 108 minutes long, but I saw this movie in 1990 and it was 90 minutes long, I've watched it again and it's 86 minutes long. Please watch it before the censors keep cutting it.

Peruvian cinema reaches a very high point, even other works by the same director, with this well-interpreted film, where vulgarity has been avoided without losing a modern sense of humor, where the viewer is not extorted with emotional impacts and television sentimentality. Really admirable the work of the scriptwriters, lighting, interpretation, direction and even music (even when it appeals to some common place). Seeing this movie reconciles with the seventh art.