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      Spitfire

      1934 1h 28m Comedy Drama List
      Reviews 34% Audience Score 100+ Ratings 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. Read More Read Less

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      Helen Brown Norden Vanity Fair 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. May 17, 2019 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Steve D An absolute mess of over-acting Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/04/24 Full Review Shadowman4710 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. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 06/19/23 Full Review john m It was one of my favorite Hepburn films…..Please watch…Though Melodramatic, it was wort watching, Rated 5 out of 5 stars 03/31/23 Full Review Audience Member A Hepburn gem. If you are prejudiced against Christianity, not for you .... or maybe it is, actually. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/24/23 Full Review Audience Member 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 Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member oh joy another lost review Rated 2.5 out of 5 stars 01/21/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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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