Ball of Fire (1941)
Directed by Howard Hawks
Our Film of the Week has to feature a linguist and grammarian, right? And what studio head is going to go for that? How about a script involving eight professors, in eight different fields, with Gary Cooper of all people playing their chief, working on an encyclopedia of all human knowledge, and it’s been nine years and they’ve gotten to the letter S.…
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