Spitfire
5.4
“Nothin' to Pay ... Nothin' to Lose ... She Loved Wherever Her Flames Caught fire!”
Dirt-poor mountain girl Trigger Hicks is a loner. Her faith-healing is mistaken for witchcraft by the community. She falls for an engineer building a dam, who protects her.
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Katharine Hepburn
Trigger Hicks
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Bringing Up Baby
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Robert Young
John Stafford
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Western Union
Ralph Bellamy
George Fleetwood
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Pretty Woman
Trading Places
Martha Sleeper
Eleanor Stafford
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The Bells of St. Mary's
Louis Mason
Bill Grayson
Also in
The Return of Frank James
The Jonker Diamond
Sara Haden
Etta Dawson
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The Shop Around the Corner
She-Wolf of London
Virginia Howell
Granny Raines
Also in
The Scarlet Letter
Double Door
Sidney Toler
Jim Sawyer
Known for
Our Relations
Blonde Venus
Will Geer
West Fry
Known for
Jeremiah Johnson
The Waltons
John Beck
Jake Hawkins
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General Custer at the Little Big Horn
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Therese Wittler
Mrs. Sawyer
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John Cromwell Director · Jane Murfin Screenplay Lula Vollmer Screenplay
Worldwide gross $604K · Budget $223K · United States release March 8, 1934
Box office
Budget
$223,000
Worldwide gross
$604,000
Gross vs. budget
2.7×
Production
RKO Radio Pictures
Production
RKO
Studio · Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United States · March 8, 1934
Limited theatrical · New York
United States
March 30, 1934 · Theatrical
Belgium
November 25, 1938 · Limited theatrical · Brussels
Sweden
March 18, 1935 · Theatrical
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