Ball of Fire (1941)
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers
Synopsis:
Seven professors, an encyclopaedia and a singing beauty: ring any bells? Yes, one of the professors is young and attractive, but essentially beauty is hiding out with the seven dwarves (digging for knowledge) because she is on the run from the police, who want her to stitch up her mob lover.
Review:
Cleverly written, well constructed comedy, with one of those casts it would be hard to equal today. When Stanwyck sticks her tongue out to show Coop her throat one is suddenly reminded of how much more carnal screwball comedy could afford to be than anything else back then.
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers
Synopsis:
Seven professors, an encyclopaedia and a singing beauty: ring any bells? Yes, one of the professors is young and attractive, but essentially beauty is hiding out with the seven dwarves (digging for knowledge) because she is on the run from the police, who want her to stitch up her mob lover.
Review:
Cleverly written, well constructed comedy, with one of those casts it would be hard to equal today. When Stanwyck sticks her tongue out to show Coop her throat one is suddenly reminded of how much more carnal screwball comedy could afford to be than anything else back then.
Country: US
Technical: bw 111m
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers
Synopsis:
Seven professors, an encyclopaedia and a singing beauty: ring any bells? Yes, one of the professors is young and attractive, but essentially beauty is hiding out with the seven dwarves (digging for knowledge) because she is on the run from the police, who want her to stitch up her mob lover.
Review:
Cleverly written, well constructed comedy, with one of those casts it would be hard to equal today. When Stanwyck sticks her tongue out to show Coop her throat one is suddenly reminded of how much more carnal screwball comedy could afford to be than anything else back then.