is a 1941 American screwball romantic comedy starring James Cagney as an airplane pilot and Bette Davis as a runaway heiress, and directed by William Keighley.

The basic plot owes much to It Happened One Night, in which an heiress seeks to marry a playboy of whom her father disapproves, only to end up with a charming working man.

Steve Collins, who runs a small air charter service that is heavily in debt, is engaged to fly them from Los Angeles to Las Vegas.

Upon hearing on the radio of the upcoming elopement, Winfield calls his daughter at the airport to attempt to prevent it, accusing Alan of being a fortune-hunter.

Steve calls the tycoon back, offering to prevent the elopement and take his daughter to him unmarried in Amarillo, Texas—for a price.

Tricking Alan out of the airplane by telling him that he has an urgent phone call from New York, Steve takes off with Joan.

The assistant DA instructs Sheriff McGee to find the kidnapper and arrest him for stealing the plane from the finance company (kidnapping is out of their jurisdiction).

When Tolliver hears news of the kidnapping on the radio, he "arrests" Steve at gunpoint, locking him up in the town jail.

To prevent Steve’s arrest, Tolliver lies and tells the sheriff that Bonanza is in Nevada, making his search warrant invalid.

The "newlyweds" board another aircraft, but when Joan sees a souvenir labeled “Bonanza, California,” she figures out that they are not really married and parachutes out to be reunited with Steve.

[5][6] Davis wasn't the first choice for the Joan Winfield part, as Ann Sheridan, Ginger Rogers and Rosalind Russell were considered before the role was earmarked for Olivia de Havilland.

[8][9] Principal photography took place in Death Valley, California in January 1941, and was problematic as temperatures soared, the script problems were unresolved, and one of the stars actually fell into a cactus, with Davis having 45 quills pulled out of her rear.