Hard to Get (Region 1 DVD)

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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

Categories: Comedies / Architecture / Dreams / Love / Music / Romance / Romances / Wrestlers

Language: English

Country: United States of America

Ratings

IMDb: 6.7

Rotten Tomatoes®: 64%

The Movie DB: 60^%

Overview: When spoiled young heiress Maggie Richards tries to charge some gasoline at an auto camp run by Bill Davis, he makes her work out her bill by making beds. Resolving to get even, she pretends to have forgiven him, and sends him to her father to get financing for a plan Bill has. What happens next was not part of her original revenge plan.

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.

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