Viewed as a political film with much justification, but this is really a love story between John Reed (author 10 Days that Shook the World, about the Russian Revolution) and Louise Bryant, also a writer - exagerating for dramatic effect an historical love triangle involving the playwrite Eugene O'Neil. All the schmulz of a romance, but a good date movie if your boyfriend is a political intellectual. The film provides a pretty good feel for the left sectarian politics of the time and their intersection with international events such as WWI and the accompanying domestic crackdown on dissent and the Russian Revolution with all it's complexities and ironies in the early years. Great performance by Maureen Stapleton as anarchist Emma Goldman, also in Reed's Village based circle of bohemians.