Hold That Woman!

Hold That Woman! (1940)

A Laff-Drama of Budgets and Bill Collectors!

A skip tracer--someone who collects late payments from people who've purchased appliances, etc., or takes them back them when they don't pay--repossesses a small radio from a deadbeat who's skipped payments. What he doesn't know is that a gang that has stolen diamonds from a Hollywood movie star has stashed them inside the radio, and they start hunting for him.

Date of release
1940-06-28
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (2)
Runtime
1h 7m
Genres
Crime, Comedy
Director
Sam Newfield

Casting

Interesting facts

Hold That Woman! is a 1940 American crime comedy film directed by Sam Newfield and starring the husband-and-wife team of James Dunn and Frances Gifford. The film follows the adventures of a skiptracer and his girlfriend as they attempt to repossess a radio that has not been paid for. Unbeknownst to them, a bag of stolen jewels has been concealed inside the radio by a gang of criminals.

Production

The film's working title was Skip Tracer. It was adapted from a story by William A. Pierce and Raymond L. Schrock. According to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald, this was the first comedy-drama film to feature a skiptracer as the main character. Director Sam Newfield was listed in the film credits as "Sherman Scott".

Hold That Woman! was the second of two films made by the husband-and-wife team of James Dunn and Frances Gifford, who had married in December 1937. They had earlier starred together in Mercy Plane (1939).

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