The Lady Eve

by Preston Sturges

Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike Ale fortune, meets Jean Harrington and her dad, "Colonel" Harrington, on a ship. Jean falls hard for Pike and shields him from her card sharp father, but when Pike's valet discovers the truth about her and her father, Pike dumps her. Furious at being scorned, she disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him. Unforgettable is the erotically loaded final long take.
Country: Usa, Paesi Bassi, Francia
Year: 1941
Running time: 97'
Genre: fiction
Screenplay: Preston Sturges
Cinematography: Victor Milner
Editing: Stuart Gilmore
Music: Sigmund Krumgold
With: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest
Produced by: Paramount Pictures