Introduction by Prof. Noah Isenberg

Cary Grant had a knack for screwball, and he inhabits the role of David Huxley, a conservative paleontologist, with unusual aplomb. In their second screen pairing, Grant plays the straight man against Katharine Hepburn’s flighty, whimsical Susan, looking for her pet leopard on the loose in leafy Connecticut. The film’s reputation rests largely on the rapid-fire dialogue, some of it improvised by Grant and Hepburn, and the superb direction of Howard Hawks. D: Howard Hawks, US, 1938, 102m

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