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Director
  
John Cromwell

Producer
  
Pandro S. Berman

Duration
  

Language
  
English

5.6/10
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Genre
  
Drama

Costume design
  
Walter Plunkett

Country
  
United States

Spitfire (1934 film) movie poster

Release date
  
March 30, 1934 (1934-03-30)

Writer
  
Lula Vollmer (from the play by), Jane Murfin (screen play), Lula Vollmer (screen play)

Cast
  
Katharine Hepburn
(Trigger Hicks),
Robert Young
(John Stafford),
Ralph Bellamy
(George Fleetwood),
Martha Sleeper
(Eleanor Stafford),
Sara Haden
(Etta Dawson),
Sidney Toler
(Jim Sawyer)

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Spitfire is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film based on the play Trigger by Lula Vollmer. It was directed by John Cromwell and starred Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young and Ralph Bellamy.

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Plot summary

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Two engineers building a dam in the mountains, John Stafford (Robert Young) and George Fleetwood (Ralph Bellamy), are attracted to local hillbilly "spitfire" Trigger Hicks (Katharine Hepburn) who is the local faith healer. Things come to a head when the locals think she's a witch.

Cast

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  • Katharine Hepburn as Trigger Hicks
  • Robert Young as John Stafford
  • Ralph Bellamy as George Fleetwood
  • Martha Sleeper as Eleanor Stafford
  • Louis Mason as Bill Grayson
  • Sara Haden (as Sarah Haden) as Etta Dawson
  • Virginia Howell as Granny Raines
  • Sidney Toler as Jim Sawyer
  • Will Geer (as High Ghere) as West Fry
  • John Beck as Jake Hawkins
  • Therese Wittler as Mrs. Jim Sawyer

    • Reception

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    The film was popular, despite Hepburn's miscasting, and (after cinema circuits deducted their exhibition percentage of boxoffice ticket sales) made a profit of $113,000.


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    References

    Spitfire (1934 film) Wikipedia
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