Ball of Fire (1941)

02/12/1941Comedy, Romance, Crime1h 51m

Overview

A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.

Howard Hawks

Director

Charles Brackett

Screenplay

Reviews

CinemaSerf

A review by CinemaSerf

7
Written by CinemaSerf on June 25, 2022

This is a cracking little comedy with Gary Cooper as the unlikely boffin "Prof. Potts" who, alongside a group of equally eminent academics has been working on an encyclopaedia for the previous 9 years - and they've only got to "S". Enter the mailman ...

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