Ball Of Fire (1941), Ball Of Fire (1941), DVD

Snow White meets the Jazz Age when a young grammarian (Gary Cooper), part of a team of eight bookish researchers working on a mammoth encyclopedia, becomes fascinated with the slangy speech of brassy showgirl Sugarpuss O'Shea (Barbara Stanwyck), who needs to hide out from the police asking about her gangster boyfriend. Madcap screwball romp from director Howard Hawks and co-scripter Billy Wilder also stars Dana Andrews, Richard Haydn, S.Z. Sakall. 111 min. Standard; Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono, Spanish Dolby Digital mono; Subtitles: English (SDH).