Ball of Fire

Name: Ball of Fire
Director: Howard Hawks
Released: 1941
Duration: 111 min
Rating: 7.7
Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka, Henry Travers, S.Z. Sakall

1941 · 111 MIN · IMDB 7.7 · 14,809 VOTES · DIR. Howard Hawks

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 When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language.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.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,922 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:02:11 Make the same. It's good for you. Spring air.

00:06:31 - Maybe three years, maybe four. - It cannot be. It just cannot be.

00:10:19 "Question one. Cleopatra died...

00:13:32 Outmoded. Based on reference books 20 years old.

00:22:02 they saw Kinnick in the back of the car.

00:25:50 Hey, what's this?

00:29:48 Well, any hasty random discussion would be of no scientific value.

00:33:31 I should have brought along my valet. I'm a sucker for comfort.

00:37:28 Well, now, Miss Bragg, there is...

00:41:27 Yeah, it takes up a lot of time being on the faculty.

00:45:29 - You're speaking of Miss O'Shea? - I am, Professor Potts.

00:49:34 Thank you.

00:53:11 - Yum-yum? - Yeah, don't you know what that means?

00:58:28 Say, I found out what's wrong with "on account of because."

01:03:23 I don't even trust the highways.

01:08:24 A gangster's moll thinking she'd marry one of my professors.

01:13:15 and knit them eight little sweaters to remember you by.

01:17:59 What did you say the name of the flower was?

01:25:10 There's going to be a wedding all right, with Sugarpuss the bride.

01:30:51 - Not according to Professor Freud. - Freud?

01:35:09 - Neighborhood of the heart. - Hello.

01:39:41 I just wanted to tell you that the sword of Damocles

01:44:53 Never mind, never mind. A quarter will do. Put it up.

300:00:00 to at last have its name

Cast & Characters

Gary Cooper Prof. Bertram Potts Barbara Stanwyck Sugarpuss O'Shea Oscar Homolka Prof. Gurkakoff Henry Travers Prof. Jerome S.Z. Sakall Prof. Magenbruch Tully Marshall Prof. Robinson Leonid Kinskey Prof. Quintana Richard Haydn Prof. Oddly Aubrey Mather Prof. Peagram Allen Jenkins Garbage Man

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,922

Dialogue density17.3 lines / min

First line00:02:11

Final line300:00:00

Production Record

DirectorHoward Hawks

LanguageEnglish

Revenue$2,641,000

IMDb votes14,809