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词条 Woman Chases Man
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. External links

{{Infobox film
| name = Woman Chases Man
| image = Womanchasesman.JPG
| caption =
| director = John G. Blystone
| producer = Samuel Goldwyn
George Haight (associate producer)
| writer = Joseph Anthony
Manuel Seff
David Hertz
Lynn Root (story)
Frank Fenton (story)
| starring = Miriam Hopkins
Joel McCrea
| music = Alfred Newman
| cinematography = Gregg Toland
| editing = Daniel Mandell
| studio = Samuel Goldwyn Productions
| distributor = United Artists
| released = {{Film date|1937|4|28}}
| runtime = 71 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
}}

Woman Chases Man (1937) is a romantic comedy film starring Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea.

Plot

B.J. Nolan tries to get his millionaire son Kenneth to invest $100,000 in a housing development called Nolan Heights. However, B.J. has a long history of backing crazy projects (which is why his wife left all her money to her son in her will), so Kenneth turns him down.

Architect Virginia Travis, unaware that B.J. has no money and is besieged by process servers, tries to get him to hire her. After B.J. breaks the news to her, she faints, having not eaten in 49 hours. He takes her back to his mansion.

When she learns that B.J.'s son is wealthy, she decides to use her wiles to extract the money they need from him, aided by B.J. and her married friends Judy and Hunk. The latter two masquerade as B.J.'s servants (B.J. had to let his old servants go as he could not pay them) when Kenneth returns from a cruise with his girlfriend Nina and her "uncle" Henri. Nina is in fact a golddigger after Kenneth's money, while Henri is her secret lover.

Virginia first concocts a scheme to have Kenneth sign five checks for household expenses at once using a mechanical device, one of B.J.'s many failures. Kenneth signs without noticing that one check is for $100,000, but when Virginia and B.J. go to the bank, Mr. Judd informs them that Kenneth has to authorize any check over $1000. Defeated, they return home.

Meanwhile, Nina plots to get Kenneth drunk, so he will propose to her. Virginia has the same general idea. After a few drinks, she and Kenneth discover they like the same things and eventually begin kissing, prompting Virginia to have second thoughts about her scheme. She then passes out from drinking too much. Kenneth carries her off to deposit her in her bed, past a fuming Nina.

Shortly afterward, B.J. wakes her up and cajoles her into trying again for the money while his son is still somewhat drunk. She goes to Kenneth's room, but when Nina makes an appearance, hides in a tree outside his window. Her dressing gown gets caught in a branch. Kenneth comes out to free her. He finds the contract B.J. had drawn up and is eager to sign it. Virginia tries to stop him by dousing him with a bucket of water that B.J. had brought. Even in his now sober state and with Virginia confessing all, he still wants to finance the project. He then embraces her.

Cast

  • Miriam Hopkins as Virginia Travis
  • Joel McCrea as Kenneth Nolan
  • Charles Winninger as B.J. Nolan
  • Erik Rhodes as Henri Saffron
  • Ella Logan as Judy Williams
  • Leona Maricle as Nina Tennyson
  • Broderick Crawford as Hunk Williams
  • Charles Halton as Mr. Judd

Production

This was the fifth and final film that Hopkins and McCrea made together, the others being The Richest Girl in the World, Barbary Coast, Splendor and These Three.

External links

  • {{IMDb title|0029789|Woman Chases Man}}
  • {{tcmdb title|96117|Woman Chases Man}}
{{Samuel Goldwyn}}

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