The film declined to provide a tagline, instead choosing imagery over words on its poster, which featured in 40""s art deco, the detective - his back facing the viewer, smoking a cigarette, with the smoke emanating from it forming the visage of the heroine, signifying the setting, the mood, and symbolism of the film without uttering a single phrase.Soon, he became wildly popular in the hit TV showSouthwest General, but his life became even more like a real soap-opera.He and his little four page paper against hat mighty syndicate.And all to defend the right of one small miner who stuck to his claim.And they tried everything - bribery, intimidation, and then..." Jeff also remembers what difficult odds his father fought against:I suppose, Mr.Paine, when a fella bucks up against a big organization like that, one man by himself can""t get very far, can he?When the country bumpkin Smith gets off the train with Paine at Union Station in Washington DC, he follows the Senator like a foster-son.This quixotic film by director John Huston, based on the 1935 novel of the same name by CS Forester, is one of the classics of Hollywood adventure filmmaking, with comedy and romance besides.