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Ball of fire / Samuel Goldwyn presents ; screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder ; produced by Samuel Goldwyn ; directed by Howard Hawks.

Contributor(s): Material type: FilmFilmPublisher number: 1000475692 | WarnerLanguage: English, Spanish Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc., [2014]Distributor: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video Description: 1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inContent type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Uniform titles:
  • Container of (expression): Ball of fire (Motion picture). Spanish.
  • Container of (work): Ball of fire (Motion picture)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Production credits:
  • Photography, Gregg Toland ; music, Alfred Newman ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; costumes, Edith Head.
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Allen Jenkins.Summary: Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
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Adult DVD Adult DVD Main Library DVD COMEDY Ball of Available 33111008289270
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Ball of Fire is a delightful retelling (by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett) of the "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" legend -- though strictly for grownups. Gary Cooper is the youngest of eight bookish professors authoring an encyclopedia. They find a perfect "research associate" in the curvaceous form of stripteaser Barbara Stanwyck, who (chastely) hides on the professors' domicile to escape her gangster boyfriend (Dana Andrews). As Stanwyck interprets various slang expression, she and the professors grow quite fond of one another; she brings out their sentimental sides, while they revive her essential decency. Naturally, Cooper is the one most smitten, though he hides his true feelings until the inevitable clinch. When gangster Andrews and his torpedo Dan Duryea show up to claim Stanwyck (Andrews wants to marry her so she can't testify against him), the professors save the day and it is Cooper who ends up with the beautiful Stanwyck. For the record, two of the "ancient" professors are Richard Haydn and O.Z. Whitehead, still in their mid-thirties (the others are S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Oscar Homolka, Leonid Kinskey and Aubrey Mather). Producer Sam Goldwyn later remade Ball of Fire as a Danny Kaye musical, A Song is Born (1948). ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

At head of title: Samuel Goldwyn presents Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in.

From an original story by Billy Wilder and Thomas Monroe.

Full screen (1.37:1).

Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941.

Photography, Gregg Toland ; music, Alfred Newman ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; costumes, Edith Head.

Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Allen Jenkins.

Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.

Not rated.

DVD, NTSC, region 1 ; Dolby Digital stereo, Dolby Digital mono, single layer.

English (Dolby stereo, Dolby mono) and Spanish (Dolby mono) dialogue, English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

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