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Actors: Spencer Tracy, Jean Harlow, Joseph Calleia
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Spencer Tracy stars as Rudolph "Dutch" Muller, a conceited tuna fisherman. Jean Harlow co-stars as Harriet "Hattie" Tuttle, a tuna canner who is in love with Dutch but pretends not to be. The owner of the fish company Nick Lewis (Joseph Calleia) wants to bring in scab workers but Dutch rallies the workers and averts a strike by talking sense into the men. Later that night, Dutch goes to the 4th of July party and meets up with Hattie. They dance and bicker but eventually meet up outside where Dutch asks hattie to marry him. Hattie accepts but then dutch shoot his mouth off and they are quickly bickering again. The fishermen eventually do go on strike and scab workers are brought in but Dutch want's to keep on fighting, but the men want to work and fire Dutch as their union leader. after losing his job, Dutch loses Hattie too as he goes to live with bums. Hattie finds out about this and steals money from Nick to help Dutch. For this she goes to prison but all is well by the end of the movie.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Romance/Love/Hugging
Yes
Kind of romance:
- romance (general)
Polit/Social/Race/Gender activism
Yes
Plotlet:
- union leaders fighting for labor rights
Poverty plotlets:
- coping with poverty (general)
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- fisherman
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- (man) average
Events of movie makes character more...
- sensitive
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Intelligence
- Average intelligence
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- blonde
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn curly
Body type
- (woman) average
How much in movie?
- 80%
Main Adversary
Identity:
- general circumstances
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- California
City?
Yes
City:
- Los Angeles
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- no torture/death
Movie makes you feel...
- all mixed up
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- kissing
Check here if B&W
Yes
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