Synopsis
High Contrast Cinema bring another screwball classic to the big screen with The Lady Eve, starring Hollywood legends Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda. Released in 1941, the film was written and directed by Preston Sturges and follows Stanwyck’s savvy con artist as she sets her sights on Fonda’s timid heir to a vast fortune, the two crossing paths aboard an ocean liner sailing across the Atlantic.
What unfolds is one of Sturges’ finest comedies: a tangle of deception, romance and social satire, driven by Stanwyck’s razor‑sharp wit and Fonda’s endearing awkwardness. Often hailed as one of the prime examples of the screwball form, The Lady Eve is a sparkling showcase of Sturges’ genius for blending sophistication with slapstick, its charm and comic precision as irresistible now as it was on its first release.
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High Contrast Cinema, Hanham Road, Wimborne, BH21 1AS
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