Preston Sturges directs Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda and Charles Coburn in this screwball comedy where a sexy con artist targets a naive brewery fortune heir only to fall for the mark.

Grows on me more and more with every rewatch. Now hits my perfect status. Barbara Stanwyck sizzles in this. Beautiful evening dresses, killer looks. In a whirlwind of snappy dialogue she is the wisest and the sharpest. What puts this daft farce up in the elite tier is not just anything can happen but we want to see her do anything to win her prize. “They say a moonlit deck is a woman’s business office.”

10

Perfect Double Bill: The Miracle Of Morgan’s Creek (1944)

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