The Lady Eve [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

"(Preston Sturges) wrote and directed this classic romantic comedy starring Henry Fonda and Barbara Stanwyck, who are involved in a scintillating battle of the sexes, as Sturges points up the terrors of sexual passion and the unattainability of the romantic ideal. Henry Fonda plays Charles Pike, the heir to the Pike Ale fortune (""The Ale That Won for Yale""). An ophiologist (a snake expert), he just spent a year ""up the Amazon"" looking for rare snakes with his cynical and protective guar...