A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance
by Henry Hathaway, William A. Seiter

A Lady Takes a Chance
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Actor: Charles Winninger, Jean Arthur, John Wayne, Mary Field, Phil Silvers
Director: Henry Hathaway, William A. Seiter
Cinematographer: Frank Redman
Producer: Dick Ross
Producer: Frank Ross
Writer: Garson Kanin
Writer: Jo Swerling
Writer: Robert Ardrey
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 86 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-01-21
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Republic Pictures

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Movie Review: A Lady Takes A Chance
Summary: 4 Stars

I am a BIG John Wayne fan. I was surprised at how good it was. It is not your "normal" Wayne movie. In this one Jean Arth;ur plays the part of Molly Trousdale. She sets out from New York on a cross-country bus tour, because she wants to see America. When she gets out West she runs into Duke Hutkins (John Wayne), who is competing in a rodeo. Duke assumes she's just another pretty girl who wants to be with a rodeo star. But she is a lady who won't be roped easly. They keep meeting throughout the rest of the movie, with Duke following her to New York, (where she has three other men who love her), to win her back and takes her back out west. Needless to say, I liked the movie and give it 4 stars.

Russ
Posted 02/23/2008

Summary of A Lady Takes a Chance

A Lady Takes a Chance is probably the best American romantic comedy of the '40s that hardly anyone knew about--at least, in the last three or four decades of the 20th century. That's chiefly because, as a semi-independent production mounted for Jean Arthur by her husband, Frank Ross, the movie couldn't claim a place in any studio archive (It's a Wonderful Life was long neglected for similar reasons). So this lovely gem is ripe for rediscovery, not only for Arthur at her most enchantingly distracted, as a New York gal on a bus tour of the modern Wild West, but also for John Wayne's sly sexiness as the rodeo rider who literally falls into her lap. James Agee, no less, approvingly noted that "Wayne suggests how sensational he might be in a sufficiently evil story about a Reno gigolo." Lady isn't evil, but it's surely a delight. --Richard T. Jameson

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