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Release Date:
25 February 1941 (USA)
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Eve Sure Knows Her Apples ! more
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Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship...
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Con Artist
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Divorce Settlement
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Nominated for Oscar.
Another 1 win
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Sturges Perfection
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Barbara Stanwyck | ... | Eugenia 'Jean' Harrington |
 | Henry Fonda | ... | Charles 'Charlie' Poncefort Pike |
 | Charles Coburn | ... | 'Colonel' Harry Harrington |
| Eugene Pallette | ... | Horace Pike |
| William Demarest | ... | Ambrose 'Muggsy' Murgatroyd |
| Eric Blore | ... | Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith |
| Melville Cooper | ... | Gerald |
| Martha O'Driscoll | ... | Martha - the Maid |
| Janet Beecher | ... | Janet Pike |
| Robert Greig | ... | Burrows - Pike's Butler |
| Dora Clement | ... | Gertrude |
| Luis Alberni | ... | Emile, Pike's chef |
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94 min
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1.37 : 1 more
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Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
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Canada:PG (Ontario) |
Sweden:15 |
South Korea:12 (2004) |
West Germany:16 (nf) |
Finland:K-16 |
USA:Unrated |
UK:U
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The check that that Henry Fonda's character, Charles Pike, writes to Charles Coburn, playing "Colonel" Harrington, is dated August 29. August 29th is director Preston Sturges' birthday.
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Revealing mistakes: When Charles and Jean are standing on the deck talking, the ambient, background sounds - of people talking and birds singing - can be heard running on a loop. The scene lasts several minutes, but the ambient sounds repeat every several seconds.
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Quotes:
Charles Pike:
What I am trying to say is: I'm not a poet, I'm an ophiologist.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in AFI's 100 Years... 100 Laughs: America's Funniest Movies (2000) (TV)
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Soundtrack:
Landlord, Fill the Flowing Bowl
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A second viewing of this after many years has confirmed it as truly one of the great comedies. I don't think Sturges was ever better (although I haven't seen all his films), and certainly he was never blessed with a better star pairing than Fonda and Stanwyck, plus his usual wonderful array of character comedians in the supporting roles. A double bill of Eve with "Hail the Conquering Hero" reveals that, while both still have their charms, Eve can still have a theatre rocking with laughter, while Hero leaves them a bit cold with its descent into Capra-cornish patriotism and mother love.
The Lady Eve has one of my favourite performances ever from Henry Fonda, showing that his grave sincerity could serve screwball comedy equally as well as Fordian moral uplift. He takes some of the funniest deadpan pratfalls this side of Buster Keaton.
And of course Stanwyck is a delight ... and Charles Coburn ... and Eugene Pallette ... and William Demarest ... and ... and ... ssshhh ... Eric Blore.
If you've never seen it, give yourself a treat