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Spitfire is a american film of genre Drama directed by John Cromwell released in USA on 30 march 1934 with Katharine Hepburn
Spitfire (1934)
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Add to a movie listSpitfire is a 1934 American Pre-Code drama film based on the play Trigger by Lula Vollmer. It was directed by John Cromwell and starred Katharine Hepburn, Robert Young and Ralph Bellamy.
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Two engineers building a dam in the mountains, John Stafford (Robert Young) and George Fleetwood (Ralph Bellamy), are attracted to local hillbilly "spitfire" Trigger Hicks (Katharine Hepburn) who is the local faith healer. Things come to a head when the locals think she's a witch.Actors
Katharine Hepburn
(Trigger Hicks)
Robert Young
(John Stafford)
Ralph Bellamy
(George Fleetwood)
Sidney Toler
(Jim Sawyer)
Martha Sleeper
(Eleanor Stafford)
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