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Features: DVD, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled
Bill Chandler (William Powell) is one of America's great anglers, a sports fisherman without peer. That's not the only fish story Chandler tells. Four of Hollywood's greatest stars - Powell, Jean Harlow, Myrna Loy and Spencer Tracy - reel in this whopper of a screwball romantic comedy classic nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancee Harlow and down-on-his-luck Powell in a counter-maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all. This Lady is one fine catch.
Editor's Note
A conniving newspaper editor uses his fiancee and an ex-employee to get the goods on a hot-headed heiress. But everything goes wrong and she sues him for $5 million. Academy Award Nominations: Best Picture. Remade as a musical in 1946 as "Easy to Wed."
Plot Summary
Screwball comedy about a newspaper editor, who tells his reporter (whom he recently canned) to dig up some dirt on an heiress. Why? To coerce her into dropping her multi-million dollar libel suit against the tabloid. The plan backfires, however, when the reporter becomes smitten with the libeled lady.
| Features | Audio: English Mono | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French, Spanish |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 3/1/2005 |
| Running Time: 98 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1936 | | Catalog ID: 65919 | | UPC: 00012569591929 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: B&W |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Oscar (1937) | | | Lawrence Weingarten , Nominee, Best Picture |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Magically funny....As joyously complicated as one could possibly wish..." 02/10/1981 p.II,15Entertainment Weekly
"A zany comedy that remains marvelously prescient even today." 03/04/2005 p.57 Los Angeles Times
"[A] fast-paced, wickedly funny screwball comedy..." 03/27/2005 p.E13 |
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