Director
Howard Hawks
Leading Actors/Actresses
Cary Grant as David Huxley, Katharine Hepburn as Susan Vance
Supporting Actors/Actresses
Virginia Walker as Alice Swallow
Genre
comedy
Language
English
Awards
88th place on the American Film Institute 100 greatest American films of all time
Date of Release
16th of February 1938
Producer
Cliff Reid
Setting and Context
Connecticut USA, first half of the 20th century
Narrator and Point of View
Third-person limited point of view
Tone and Mood
Chaotic, fast-paced
Protagonist and Antagonist
Protagonist: David Huxley, Antagonist: an appearance of the wild leopard creates an antagonizing situation with high stakes
Major Conflict
David's fate gets constantly chaotically intertwined with the scatterbrained Susan, who is also a niece of Elizabeth Random, a rich woman who is supposed to make a large donation to David's work.
Climax
All the characters end up in prison with a series of misunderstandings where they discover that there is a wild leopard on the loose, a leopard that Susan went to look after thinking it's her tame leopard Baby.
Foreshadowing
"I have a feeling something horrible is gonna happen."
-David telling Susan just before chaos with Baby ensues.
Understatement
"You've just had a bad day, that's all."-Susan
"That's a masterpiece of understatement."-David
Innovations in Filming or Lighting or Camera Techniques
Both of the leopards appearing in the movie were played by a trained leopard named Nissa, with constant supervision of the trainer.
The dog George was an already famous acting dog called Skippy which appeared in various other movies.
Allusions
"I can't give you anything but love"-a popular American jazz songs from the 1920s
Paradox
"I did talk to him, but I didn't talk to him."
Parallelism
"I've got my head. I've lost my leopard."-Susan
