The read
A Balasaur Score of 85 out of 100, drawn from IMDb 7.7/10, Rotten Tomatoes 99%, Metacritic 96/100. Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 96% of the 235 1940s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
It's no accident when wealthy Charles falls for Jean. Jean is a con artist with her sights set on Charles' fortune. Matters complicate when Jean starts falling for her mark. When Charles suspects Jean is a gold digger, he dumps her. Jean, fixated on revenge and still pining for the millionaire, devises a plan to get back in Charles' life. With love and payback on her mind, she re-introduces herself to Charles, this time as an aristocrat named Lady Eve Sidwich.
Ratings
Critics rate it 19 points higher than audiences do.
412 audience votes
Key crew
- Preston SturgesScreenplay
- Preston SturgesDirector
Cast
- Barbara StanwyckJean Harrington
- Henry FondaCharles Pike
- Charles Coburn'Colonel' Harrington
- Eugene PalletteHorace Pike
- William DemarestMuggsy
- Eric BloreSir Alfred McGlennan Keith
- Melville CooperGerald
- Martha O'DriscollMartha
- Janet BeecherJanet Pike
- Robert GreigBurrows
- Dora ClementGertrude
- Luis AlberniEmile, Pike's chef
