Part of Barbara Stanwyck Double Feature
Sunday, February 19, 2012, 3:00 p.m.

Dir. Preston Sturges. 1941, 94 mins.

With Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn. In this comic masterpiece by Preston Sturges, Stanwyck is a con-artist who seduces a naïve snake collector on a ship. According to Callahan, this is “Stanwyck’s funniest, most confident, and most unabashedly romantic performance.”