The Candid Candidate
Jack Wood is the nephew, press secretary and heir apparent to Mayor Fred Donovan whose Democratic political machine has run the Midwestern town of Palmer City for a quarter century. Donovan is aging, and the corruption in the city is getting out of hand. When Jack suffers a head injury that leaves him with a mysterious side effect -- he has an overwhelming compulsion to bluntly speak his mind -- he is soon revealing scandals at press conferences and is f...