Top cast:Mary Pickford,Billy Quirk,James Kirkwood
Director:Fructuós Gelabert&Enrique Jiménez
Genre:Biography
Region:Mexico
Year:2001
Storyline:Its title was a takeoff on the similar film title,The Philadelphia Story (1940).It was thefifthof eight films that Sturges wrote and directed for Paramount Studios between his most prolific years, from 1940 and 1946:The Great McGinty (1940)Christmas in July (1940)The Lady Eve (1941)Sullivan's Travels (1942)The Palm Beach Story (1942)The Miracle of Morgan's Creek (1944)Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)The Great Moment (1946)The film is literally full of choice, timeless, quotable lines of dialogue, although a portion of the film is slightly dated (the character of the black train porter).After Henry's seemingly-lifeless form is carried in a procession into the gothic castle on a stretcher (with background music of a slow, rhythmic dirge), Minnie rushes in and wails to a co-worker that the Monster still lives: "It's alive! The Monster! It's alive!" She is not believed, denounced as an "old fool," and told: "We don't believe in ghosts.She offered herself: "I've been mistaken.Forgive me." He asked: "So you want to be human? Then wear their mark," and he cruelly branded the palm of her hand with a hot iron.On the other side of the hill were the sacred ruins at Calima.According to the apes' holy writings, that was where creation began: "Where the Almighty breathed life into Semos, the first ape, in the time before time.When he finds an opportunity, he asks what she thinks of Monte Carlo, o which she responds in a forward way: "Oh well, well I think it's rather artificial.