We""re all very proud of you, Ben.As a graduation present, Ben has been given a shiny red Alfa Romeo.Another family friend congratulates him: "Hey, here""s the track star.How are you track star?" More guests make a fuss over him and offer congratulatory kisses:Guests: We""re all so proud of you, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud, proud.S.Senator (1932-35), notorious Huey Pierce Long - "The Kingfish." It is a melodramatic story of the corruption of power by an ambitious demagogue, adapted and based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning and best-selling 1946 novel of the same name by Robert Penn Warren, and filmed from a script by producer/screenwriter/director Robert Rossen (known for directing other films such asBody and Soul (1947)andThe Hustler (1961)).The home is the residence of the Alexanders.The elderly husband Frank Alexander (Patrick Magee), a left-leaning writer, taps away at his IBM typewriter in a book-shelved section of the home.A closeup of the tureen of the batch of ketchup being stirred in the kitchen dissolves into view.Fussing continues over he ketchup""s taste when Grandpa pronounces it "too thick." Agnes bursts into the kitchen looking for her cat named Little Babbie.No-nonsense Katie brags about having kicked it down the cellar stairs, joking:Katie: I could hear its spine hit on every step.