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The Perfect Specimen

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1hr 22min
Genre:
Comedy
Release:
1937
Directors:
Joshua Shelley, Michael Curtiz, Leonard
Starring:
Errol Flynn, Joan Blondell, Hugh Herbert  ...more
Synopsis: Based on a popular novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams, this screwball comedy stars Errol Flynn in the title-role, the heir to an industrial fortune kept hidden from the world by his imperious grandmother (May Robson). Intrigued by the secrecy, peppy Joan Blondell literally crashes the estate to liberate the young man and the two embark on a whirlwind trip through Pennsylvania. Falling in love with the intruder along the way, Flynn learns how life is lived by the other half -- or at least by the wacky ... Full Synopsis
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Hans J. Wollstein, AMG Review
An attempt at screwball comedy by a director and star not exactly well versed in the genre, The Perfect Specimen is basically It Happened One Night in reverse, and was indeed based on a novel by the same author, Samuel Hopkins Adams. Despite his unfamiliarity with comedy, Errol Flynn does surprisingly well in the Claudette Colbert part, but the situations conjured up by screenwriter Norman Reilly Raine ... Full Review
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Errol Flynn
Gerald Beresford Wicks
Joan Blondell
Mona Carter
Hugh Herbert
Killigrew Shaw
Edward Everett Horton
Mr. Grattan
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