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Ball of Fire - DVD *NEW
Format:
DVD
Rating:
Not Rated
Actors:
Gary Cooper, Frank J. Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck
Director:
Howard Hawks
Runtime:
111 minutes
Retail Price:
$19.98
Auction Starting Bid:
$5.77
BUY IT NOW:
$6.52
BALL OF FIRE opens with a group of eight mild-mannered professors who are hard at work compiling an encyclopedia. Work is dull but progressing well until language expert Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) realizes his section on slang is outdated. For research he ventures into the outside world, where he encounters nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), who, thanks to her mobster boyfriend, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), needs a place to hide out. The professors are only too happy to have a woman living among them, and the brassy singer teaches them more than slang, in the process livening up their academic lives with nylons and conga lines. Potts becomes infatuated with Sugarpuss, but when Joe wants her back, things get complicated. A lively romantic comedy with top performances from Cooper, an Oscar-nominated Stanwyck, and a terrific cast of supporting actors, the film also features Gene Krupa and His Orchestra. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Story. Hawks went on to remake the film in 1948 as the musical A SONG IS BORN, starring Danny Kaye.
Gary Cooper, Frank J. Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruby Stevens, Oscar Homolka, Oskar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Carver Dana Andrews, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, S.Z 'Cuddles' Sakall, Szoke Szakall (II), Tully Marshall, Leonid Kinskey, Richard Haydn, Aubrey Mather, Allen Jenkins, Alan Jenkins, Dan Duryea, Charles Lane
Rating: Not Rated Content: n/a Runtime: 111 minutes Color: B&W Extra Info:
DVD Features:
Keep Case
Audio:
(unspecified) - English
EDITORIAL REVIEWS:
"...[The film] boasts a classic screwball script..."
USA Today (05/10/1995)
"[The film] morphs from an adorable SNOW WHITE farce into a touching paean to falling for a nerd." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly (06/01/2007)
ADDITIONAL PRODUCTION NOTES: Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn, Shmuel Gelbfisz
Composer: Alfred Newman Director of Photography: Gregg Toland Editor: Daniel Mandell Production Designer: Perry Ferguson
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BALL OF FIRE opens with a group of eight mild-mannered professors who are hard at work compiling an encyclopedia. Work is dull but progressing well until language expert Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) realizes his section on slang is outdated. For research he ventures into the outside world, where he encounters nightclub singer Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), who, thanks to her mobster boyfriend, Joe Lilac (Dana Andrews), needs a place to hide out. The professors are only too happy to have a woman living among them, and the brassy singer teaches them more than slang, in the process livening up their academic lives with nylons and conga lines. Potts becomes infatuated with Sugarpuss, but when Joe wants her back, things get complicated. A lively romantic comedy with top performances from Cooper, an Oscar-nominated Stanwyck, and a terrific cast of supporting actors, the film also features Gene Krupa and His Orchestra. Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett were nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Story. Hawks went on to remake the film in 1948 as the musical A SONG IS BORN, starring Danny Kaye.
Credits
Writer:
Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Thomas Monroe
Producer:
Samuel Goldwyn
Cast:
Allen Jenkins, Aubrey Mather, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Lane, Dan Duryea, Dana Andrews, Gary Cooper, Henry Travers, Leonid Kinskey, Oscar Homolka, Richard Haydn, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall
Editorial reviews
"...[The film] boasts a classic screwball script..." USA Today - Mike Clark (05/10/1995)
"[The film] morphs from an adorable SNOW WHITE farce into a touching paean to falling for a nerd." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly - Gregory Kirschling (06/01/2007)
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