Ball of Fire (1941)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.9/10   

Director:

Howard Hawks

Escritores:

Charles Brackett (screenplay) &
Billy Wilder (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

2 diciembre 1941 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Romance

Frase comercial:

The New Year's red-hot comedy!

Plot:

A group of ivory-tower lexicographers realize they need to hear how real people talk, and end up helping a beautiful singer escape from the Mob.

Plot Keywords:

Professor | Slang | Nightclub | Singer | Conga

Premios:

Nominated for 4 Oscars.

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A Comical Visit to the Past

Reparto

Gary Cooper	...	Professor Bertram 'Pottsie' Potts
Barbara Stanwyck	...	Katherine 'Sugarpuss' O'Shea
Oskar Homolka	...	Professor Gurkakoff - Mathematics
Henry Travers	...	Professor Jerome - History
S.Z. Sakall	...	Professor Magenbruch - Physiology
Tully Marshall	...	Professor Robinson - Law
Leonid Kinskey	...	Professor Quintana
Richard Haydn	...	Professor Oddly - Botany
Aubrey Mather	...	Professor Peagram - Literature
Allen Jenkins	...	Garbageman
Dana Andrews	...	Joe Lilac
Dan Duryea	...	Duke Pastrami
Ralph Peters	...	Asthma Anderson
Kathleen Howard	...	Miss Bragg
Mary Field	...	Miss Totten

También conocida como:

The Professor and the Burlesque Queen
Bola de fuego (Spain) [es]

Duración:

111 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)

Clasificación:

Australia:PG | Argentina:Atp | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:Approved (PCA #7347)

Compañía:

Samuel Goldwyn Company, The

Trivialidades:

In the scene where Pastrami and Asthma have the professors hostage in the library, the gunmen begin shooting at random items. One gunman (Pastrami) says, "I saw me a picture last week," and proceeds to lick his thumb and then rubs it on the sight of his gun. This is a reference to star Gary Cooper's previous movie Sergeant York (1941) in which York uses this as a technique to improve his marksmanship.

Errores:

Personal o Equipo Visible: During the walk through central park, the camera shadow is visible on Professor Gurkakoff's torso.

Citas:

Sugarpuss O'Shea: [about Potts] Yes, I love him. I love those hick shirts he wears with the boiled cuffs and the way he always has his vest buttoned wrong. He looks like a giraffe, and I love him.

Conexiones de Película:

References Sergeant York (1941)

Banda de Sonido:

Drum Boogie

A Comical Visit to the Past

This is the perfect film to view in between seeing today's myriad message movies and super-techno thrillers. In stunning black-and-white the merry adventures of bachelor and aging academics, struggling to complete a massive encyclopedia funded by an increasingly doubtful (and homely) heiress, unfold. The scholars encounter the beautiful (and wonderful) Barbara Stanwyck, a gang moll who needs to hide out while her crime boss boyfriend seeks to avoid an unpleasant prosecution related to a rival who disappeared wearing concrete shoes (low tech disposal of the suddenly terminated was the simple order of the day in 1941).

Gary Cooper is the youngest of the researchers and, obviously, from the first moment that he and the gorgeous Stanwyck set eyes on each other, the ultimate outcome can't be in doubt. No psychological exploration of the nature of evil or the vagaries of love between opposites darken this sprightly gem from the vaults. The cast must have enjoyed making this film.

Easily obtainable for rent or for purchase, "Ball of Fire" shows pre-Pearl Harbor comedic Hollywood at its zenith.