But it isn""t, sir.Poverty is not the lack of anything, but a positive plague, virulent in itself, contagious as cholera, with filth, criminality, vice and despair as only a few of its symptoms.BackgroundThe Philadelphia Story(1940) is an intelligent, sophisticated, classic romantic comedy-farce (part screwball) of love and marriage, human growth and class distinctions.McClane found a newscopter reporter at the airport, Samantha Coleman (Sheila McCarthy), and hitched a ride to Hangar 11, where they found that the plane was already headed for the runway and almost ready to take off.They wanted to send him to an asylum, but his daddy said no Radley was going to any asylum.So they locked him up in the basement of the courthouse till he nearly died of the damp, and his daddy brought him back home.