Plot: Eight educated men are tasked with completing an encyclopedia. Their work is disturbed when a young woman shows up at their place and asks if she can hide out for a while. She is being chased by the police, who want her to testify against her boyfriend, a gangster. The men are smitten by her beauty, but also by her particular slang.
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October 05, 2024
Stuffy old comedy, written by Billy Wilder and directed by Howard Hawks. If you like classic Hollywood this is a film for you. If you dread American cheese and anything AFI-related, it's better to stay away from this one. It's an overly long film that has nothing to offer besides a rather odd premise.
That's about the only fun thing about Ball of Fire, which gets you through the first 15 minutes. After that, the film settles into more classic patterns and all that is left are dusty dialogues and crummy performances. I have no idea why they thought this had to last almost two hours, there's hardly enough material to fill half that runtime.