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Ball of Fire (1941)
Director: Howard Hawks
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Marvellous performance from Stanwyck, all snap, crackle and pop as the brassy nightclub entertainer Sugarpuss O'Shea who seeks refuge with seven crusty old professors (plus Cooper) to escape unwelcome attentions from a gangster, and whose vocabulary (not to mention charms) excite delighted wonderment in the professors since they have just reached 'Slang' in the encyclopaedia they are compiling. Rather surprisingly, Hawks slightly muffs the sequence in which the gangster and his aides get their comeuppance; otherwise his handling of the sparkling Brackett-Wilder script and its subversions of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is pure joy.Author: TM
Cast & crew
Director: Howard Hawks
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, Tully Marshall, Richard Haydn, SZ Sakall, Dana Andrews full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 112 mins
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