A library comedy that moves with the energy of a caper, Howard Hawks’s loose adaptation of Snow White turns academic fieldwork into a charming, swing-era flirtation with language itself.
Abandoned by her family as an unwed mother and sold as a prostitute to soldiers by a traveling salesman, Josephine Monaghan (Suzy Amis) decides to live as a man. As ‘Jo,’ she settles in the shabby mining town of Ruby City and becomes a frontiersman.