Ball of Fire

I'm not usually the type to sit and watch old movies, but my mother is (we watched it together), it was just amazing. The acting along with most of the older moves was wonderful. And was not overly predictable like most... Full review

I'm not usually the type to sit and watch old movies, but my mother is (we watched it together), it was just amazing. The acting along with most of the older moves was wonderful. And was not overly predictable like most... Full review

Barbara Stanwyck plays a wise-cracking entertainer who moves in with 8 professorial types in "Ball of Fire," a marvelous Billy Wilder film, directed by Howard Hawks, that is loosely based on Snow White and the 7 Dwarfs! Only Wilder could... Full review

Wow, what a cast! Let's see, there's Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Richard Haydn, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall, Tully Marshall, Dana Andrews, Allen Jenkins and more! Classic film fans know all these names.What's more, it's a fun movie, fun... Full review

"Ball of Fire" is known as the last great pre-war comedy, and with good reason. It all begins when a group of egghead professors are writing an encyclopedia. Then, grammarian Bertram Potts (Gary Cooper) realizes that he doesn't know any... Full review

A mixture of innocence and passion make up what Ball of Fire is about. At times, this is Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs with a giant ball of fire. Even for 1941, there are moments of sexy conduct that... Full review

This such a good movie!! I am a child who enjoys watching old films, and this MUST be on my top 20 list!! (probably 14 or so)...It resembles Snow White and the Seven - no, eight - dwarves, and is hilarious!!... Full review

This such a good movie!! I am a child who enjoys watching old films, and this MUST be on my top 20 list!! (probably 14 or so)...It resembles Snow White and the Seven - no, eight - dwarves, and is hilarious!!... Full review

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... Full review

Basically, this is a gangster version of "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Here "Snow White" is a night club singer faultlessly played by Barbara Stanwyck. The "evil witch" is the local police, out to haul her in because of... Full review

The adroit transfer helps appreciate Gregg Toland's contribution to the visuals....while the Hawksian dialogue may not overlap as fervently as in his other classics, the sound captures it deftly enough..... ... Full Review

After the rush of His Girl Friday , Ball of Fire is a more sedate ride, full of such marvelous passages as the conga line Stanwyck's delectable Sugarpuss teaches the professors; ultimately, the film's optimistic integration of intellectual and physical impulses lends it a feeling of wholeness (greatly aided by Gregg Toland's deep-focus cinematography) closer to Hawks's later, more serene films than to his breathless early comedies. ... Full Review

The pace may be a bit slower, but the film is very well packed with goodies. DVD Details: Ball of Fire was issued on an early DVD that quickly went out of print, so MGM's new 2007 re-issue is most welcome, even if it doesn't have any extras. ... Full Review

In this respect, the episode slightly reminded me of one of my favorite movies, Ball of Fire , which is about a coven of cute, uptight, exotically tongued professors who get wowed by a voluptuous dame named Sugarpuss O'Shea, played by Barbara Stanwyck - or in this case, Casey. ... Full Review

In BALL OF FIRE, Gary Cooper portrays Professor Bertram Potts, an English scholar who has spent a considerable amount of time covering slang for an encyclopedia. Barbara Stanwyck plays Sugarpuss O'Shea, a nightclub singer who decides volunteer for the project so that she can hide from the authorities that want to question her about her association with a notorious mobster. ... Full Review

Barbara Stanwyck is a streetwise nightclub singer/dancer who, on the run from gangsters, ends up hiding out in the home of eight uptight, very proper professors (led by Gary Cooper) working on an encyclopedia. ... Full Article

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By Travis Mackenzie Hoover This isnt prime Howard Hawks by any stretch but its screwball spin on Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs still makes for a sparkling bit of Hollywood fluff. ... Full Article

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