Katharine Hepburn
Trigger Hicks
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Spitfire: Directed by John Cromwell. With Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young, Ralph Bellamy, Martha Sleeper. A story about a savage girl in an American outback who is suspected of witchcraft.
- (887)
- Drama
- John Cromwell
- 1934-03-30
United States. Language. English. Budget. $223,000 [1] Box office. $604,000 [1] 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.
- $223,000
- Bernhard Kaun
- March 30, 1934
- Pandro S. Berman
Spitfire (1934) -- (Movie Clip) I'd Buy The Whole World Country girl Trigger (Katharine Hepburn) is waiting to see if a guy she beaned with a rock will recover, chatting with engineers Fleetwood (Ralph Bellamy) and Stafford (Robert Young), in Spitfire, 1934.
- John Cromwell, Kenneth Holmes, Dewey Starkey
- Katharine Hepburn
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Fiercely independent and versed in the ways of folk medicine, Hicks is suspected of witchcraft and has been cast out by the judgmental residents of the nearby town. When Trigger abducts a baby who...
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- John Cromwell
- Comedy, Drama
- Katharine Hepburn
Director: John Cromwell. Screenwriter: Jane Murfin. Cast: Katharine Hepburn. Robert Young. Ralph Bellamy. Martha Sleeper. Sara Haden. Sidney Toler.
Sentimental comedy-drama starring Hepburn as a hillbilly faith healer from the Ozarks who falls into a love triangle. One in a string of early boxoffice flops for Hepburn. She wanted to play a role other than patrician Eastern Seaboard, and did, but audiences didn't buy it. 90m/B VHS .
Director. Lula Vollmer. Screenplay. Jane Murfin. Screenplay. Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
