Ball of fire / Samuel Goldwyn ; screen play by Charles Brackett and Billy Wilder ; produced by Samuel Goldwyn ; directed by Howard Hawks.
When a serious-minded professor and his high brow colleagues begin work on a new encyclopedia, he enlists the aid of a beautiful but shady night club queen to explain slang, unaware that she is on the run from the mob.
| Uniform Title: | Leading men.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies. |
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| Language: | English French German Spanish Italian |
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Closed captioned.
Languages: English original theatrical mono, English stereo, French, German, Spanish, Italian. Subtitles: English, French, Spanish. |
| Published: |
[New York] :
HBO Home Video : Samuel Goldwyn Home Entertainment,
[1998], ©1998.
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| Series: | Leading men.
Rovi Media Collection. Movies. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
When a serious-minded professor and his high brow colleagues begin work on a new encyclopedia, he enlists the aid of a beautiful but shady night club queen to explain slang, unaware that she is on the run from the mob. |
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| Note: | Based on an original story by Billy Wilder and Thomas Monroe. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1941. Interactive menus include: scene selection, language & subtitle selection, cast biographies. Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | AF4 D0008934 VideoDVD AF4 D0009059 VideoDVD |
| ISBN: | 0783113285 9780783113289 |
| Credits: | Photographer, Gregg Toland ; editor, Daniel Mandell ; music, Alfred Newman. |
| System Details: | DVD, digitally remastered. |
| Cast: |
Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Dana Andrews, Dan Duryea, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakal. |