i just saw adam have four son for the first time and the thing that strike me be that i believe that the model use be theodore roosevelt and his four son . they be approximately the same age a the four boy in this film . warner baxter in his portrayal of adam stoddard talk about the same value and family tradition that you would have hear from our 26th president without some of the more boisterous aspect of tr character . like tr all of the stoddard son serve in world war i and in this case though the young only lose an eye instead of be kill . but what if a female minx get into this all male household and disrupts thing . that susan hayward job here . in one of her early prominent role and hayward be a flirtatious amoral girl who marry one son and have an affair with another and and start make a play for the third . it an early forerunner of the kind of a part that later bring her an oscar in i want to live . i suppose that with as powerful a model of decorum a theodore roosevelt be and warner baxter portrays and everyone be afraid to tell father what go on . the son and also their governess ingrid bergman . here where the plot get a little silly . bergman be introduce to u a a governess hire by baxter and wife fay wray for their kid . wray dy and baxter suffers some financial reversal in business . bergman have to be let go . she go back to france and year later come back to the family when the kid be grow up . i be sorry and but i can not believe the kid need a governess now . hayward be quite right when she confront her that it wasn not the kid who bring her back . in the normal course of thing and bergman would have get on with her life . one of the previous reviewer say that a quarter to a third of the film i have be edit out . possibly that could be the reason for the many plot hole we have . it too bad that ingrid and susan could not have do another film together in the fifty when hayward be at her height and bergman have just make a comeback . susan hayward be the main reason to see adam have four son . and i be willing to believe that a good deal of ingrid be leave on the cutting room floor .