Spitfire (1934 film)
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| Directed by | John Cromwell |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Written by | Lula Vollmer (play and screenplay) Jane Murfin (screenplay) |
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87 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $223,000 |
| Box office | $604,000 |
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.
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.
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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