despite late claim and this early talkie melodrama have very little in common with citizen kane represent it a biopic of a ruthless but human fictional plutocrat and tell in flashback but hop around time . the scriptwriter and preston sturges and show none of his late gift for sparkle dialog and and none of the myriad cinematic innovation of kane be evident . still and it very watchable and with a young spencer tracy ( his old man makeup make him look just like and well and an old spencer tracy ) show depth and authority and and colleen moore a little past her prime and and not physically well match play a multifaceted woman behind the man . there also helen vinson a one of the most treacherous femmes fatales in movie history and send the final third into ecstatic soap opera reverberation . the survive print be jumpy and have miss audio snippet and and there be some plot hole leave open ( how would she know whose son it be if she sleep with both of them . ) and and the music be awfully hokey . for all that and i be quite fascinate .