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Ball of Fire

Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck shine in this fabulous Howard Hawks comedy.

  • Director

    Howard Hawks

  • With

    Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Dana Andrews, Henry Travers

  • USA 1941. 112min

  • 35mm

  • Certificate

    U

  • A BFI National Archive print

When nightclub dancer and gangster’s girlfriend Sugarpuss O’Shea (Stanwyck) needs to lie low, a house shared by eight professors researching American slang provides the ideal hideout. Producer Samuel Goldwyn assembled an A-list of collaborators on both sides of the camera for this delightful screwball comedy, inspired by the story of Snow White.

‘It’s as near perfect a comedy as any I’ve ever seen... There’s nothing I can fault’
– Dani Vilu, BFI Member

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