Released Date:
1938-02-18
Languages:
English
Countries:
USA
Runtime:
102 min
Rated:
APPROVED
IMDB Ratings:
(42030 Reviews)
Director:
Howard HawksDudley Nichols (screen play)
Hagar Wilde (screen play)
Hagar Wilde (from the story by)
Mild mannered zoology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news that an intercostal clavicle bone has been found to complete his brontosaurus skeleton, a project four years in the construction. He is equally excited about his imminent marriage to his assistant, the officious Alice Swallow, who is interested in him more for his work than for him as a person. David needs the $1 million endowment of wealthy dowager Mrs. Carleton Random to complete the project. Her lawyer, Alexander Peabody, will make the decision on her behalf, so David needs to get in his favor. However, whenever David tries to make a good impression on Peabody, the same young woman always seems to do something to make him look bad. She is the flighty heiress Susan Vance. The more David wants Susan to go away, the more Susan seems not to want or be able to. But David eventually learns that Alexander Peabody is her good friend, who she calls Boopy, and Susan's Aunt Elizabeth, with whom David has also made a bad impression without her knowing who he is, is Mrs. Carleton Random. However getting in Aunt Elizabeth and Boopy's good graces is not as easy as Susan smoothing the waters with them. Throw into the mix a tame pet leopard named Baby that Susan's brother Mark inexplicably sends her from Brazil, Aunt Elizabeth's big game hunting friend Major Horace Applegate, Aunt Elizabeth's pet terrier George who has a penchant for burying bones and other things, and a traveling circus passing through town and David may never be able to finish his project or make it to his wedding. But David may come to the realization that there is something more important in his life.
The Borrowers
An eight-year-old boy discovers a family of tiny people, only a few inches tall, living beneath the floorboards of a Vic...
Read MoreEnd of the Road
After a catatonic episode on a railway station platform, Jacob Horner is taken to "The Farm", a bizarre insane asylum ru...
Read MoreIntolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intoleran...
Read MoreWhen Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story
Based on the true story of the enduring but troubled love between Lois Wilson, co-founder of Al-Anon, and her alcoholic ...
Read MoreLove's Long Journey
Missie's surprise pregnancy sets her on a new course that is both thrilling and terrifying. After all the planning and d...
Read MoreTime to Leave
Romain is a very successful fashion photographer who's diagnosed with terminal cancer. He copes by being cruel and nasty...
Read MoreDrowning Ghost
Hundred years ago, three students at the Hellestads Boarding School were brutally slaughtered, the murderer drowned hims...
Read MoreJoin our mailing list and get access to expert analysis, trivia, and recommendations that will elevate your movie-watching experience.