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Spitfire

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When civil engineer George Fleetwood (Ralph Bellamy) and his partner, John Stafford (Robert Young), arrive in the Ozarks to oversee the construction of a dam, they meet local spitfire Trigger Hicks (Katharine Hepburn). 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 has fallen ill, George and John struggle to help the impoverished woman.

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Helen Brown Norden Vanity Fair 05/17/2019
Although, personally, we have never joined up with those vast cohorts who cross themselves and start to gibber at the very sound of the name of Hepburn, we must in all fairness admit that [Spitfire] contains some of the finest work she has ever done. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

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Steve D 03/04/2024 An absolute mess of over-acting See more Shadowman4710 06/17/2023 Katherine Hepburn is seriously miscast as a 17 year backwoods would be faith healer named Trigger Hicks in what is considered by many critics to be her worst film. It's really not all that bad but it's very, very dated and while her performance is fairly solid, it's not good enough to make this any more than a passable entry for hard core Hepburn fans. See more john m 06/18/2021 It was one of my favorite Hepburn films…..Please watch…Though Melodramatic, it was wort watching, See more 05/30/2020 A Hepburn gem. If you are prejudiced against Christianity, not for you .... or maybe it is, actually. See more 10/19/2015 To my thinking this was an academy award performance by Hepburn,the reviewers must have been in a stupor when the gave this movie bad reviews See more 06/09/2014 oh joy another lost review See more Read all reviews
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John Cromwell

Director

Katharine Hepburn

Trigger Hicks

Robert Young

John Stafford

Ralph Bellamy

George Fleetwood

Martha Sleeper

Eleanor Stafford

Sara Haden

Etta Dawson
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Synopsis When civil engineer George Fleetwood (Ralph Bellamy) and his partner, John Stafford (Robert Young), arrive in the Ozarks to oversee the construction of a dam, they meet local spitfire Trigger Hicks (Katharine Hepburn). 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 has fallen ill, George and John struggle to help the impoverished woman.
Director
John Cromwell
Production Co
RKO Pictures
Genre
Comedy, Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (DVD)
Apr 20, 2009
Runtime
1h 28m