Hard to Get (Region 1 DVD)
Description
A college grad who plans to put his engineering degree to use someday is is reduced to working at a gas station; here he meets and falls in love with a millionairess.
Product Details
- Barcode
- 883316165348
- Department
- Movies & TV
- Released
- 5 May 2009
- Type
- Movies
- Format
- DVD
- Genre
- Comedy
- Region
- Region 1
- Studio
- Warner Archives
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Age Restriction
- NR
- Supply Source
- USA
Movie
- Title
- Hard to Get
- Release Year
- 1938
- Running Time
- 80 min
- Ratings
-
- IMDb
- 6.8
- Synopsis
- Dick Powell had already played the poor guy who falls for rich gal in HAPPINESS AHEAD (34); HARD TO GET is a far superior film in this vein, and with better songs to boot. The wealthy lady in this film is Olivia de Havilland, who at this point in her career specialized in spoiled heiresses. Dick Powell is a gas-station attendant who doesn't recognize de Havilland and refuses to give her credit when her car goes on the blink. She gets even in several nasty ways, but softens when she falls in love with Powell--thanks to a little nudge from her kindly daddy, Charlie Winninger. As in HAPPINESS AHEAD, it is the father who financially smooths the path for the loving couple. Powell only has two songs, but one of them is the surefire hit "You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby." Ironically, the title HARD TO GET had been previously been used in 1929 for a silent Warner Bros. comedy about a poor girl falling for a rich boy.
- Release Notes
DVD Features:
- Region [unknown]
- Full Frame
Audio:
- English
- Poster
- Cast & Crew
- Director
- Ray Enright
- Star
- Melville Cooper / Olivia de Havilland / Bonita Granville / Allen Jenkins / Dick Powell / Charles Winninger
- Co-Star
- Herbert Ashley / Irving Bacon / Granville Bates / Sidney Bracey / Jimmy Conlin / Edgar Dearing / Herbert Evans / Thurston Hall / Ben Hendricks Jr. / Arthur Houseman / Arthur Hoyt / Isabel Jeans / George Kirby / Vera Lewis / Lotta Williams / Jack Mower / Herbert Rawlinson / Dick Rich / John Ridgely / Cliff Saum / Penny Singleton / Grady Sutton / Nella Walker
- Screenwriter
- Maurice Leo / Richard Macauley / Jerry Wald
- Director of Photography
- Charles Rosher
- Music Director
- Leo F. Forbstein
- Song Composer
- Johnny Mercer / Harry Warren