One of the finest screwball comedy
This is arguably one of the best screwball slapstick made by Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn. This was treated as a disaster when the movie was released in 1938. Producer Howard Hawks overran the budget and RKO incurred a loss of $365,000. Already embattled by vicious attack by the movie critics and a lack of box office pull came close to hurt the career of Katherine Hepburn, which ended her RKO career, and terminated a brief tenure of Howard Hawks. It was just that this movie was ahead of its time, or the marketing of the film needed new tactics. But this movie was well received much later and regarded as one of the best comedy by both fans and film critics.
This is a story of a stuffy paleontologist who is devoted to his academic studies and he happens to meet a wealthy heiress by chance and she turns his whole life upside down. Howard Hawks’ seamless direction turned this story into a real screwball comedy. Peter Bogdanovich’s film, “What’s up Doc” is loosely based on this story. Grant and Hepburn are strongly supported by Charles Ruggles and May Robson.
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