Ball Of Fire (Hawks, 1941): BFI Southbank, NFT2, 5.55pm
This 35mm presentation is in the Razor Sharp: The Fabulous Women of Howard Hawks season at BFI Southbank. The movie also screens on June 20th. Full details here.
Time Out review:
Marvellous performance from Barbara Stanwyck, all snap, crackle and pop as the
brassy nightclub entertainer Sugarpuss O'Shea who seeks refuge with
seven crusty old professors (plus Gary 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.
Tom Milne
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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