Exquisitely visualized and sensually photographed, he impressionistic film would stand on its owneven withoutthe few dialogue or title cards that currently appear.Adam Stanton (Shepperd Strudwick) - a close childhood friend of Jack""s.At one of many fancy social occasions, a formal dinner, discussion flares over the direction of Jack""s troubled career choice and conflicting political viewpoints regarding Willie Stark""s populist message.The semi-conscious man struggles to pick himself up from he floor.One of the film""s most graceful camera movements occurs next - the camera pulls back from the window and balcony of the Grand Hotel room and floats past other walls, rooms and nocturnal hotel exteriors until it finds a man standing pensively on his hotel balcony.If you feel like bawling, how do you thinkwefeel?She goes outside to the porch to reflect (Geoff orders: "Stay here until you put all that together") on the "flying business" at Barranca and everyone""s detached and pragmatic realism.