Where does Kate get the car keys to Cary's car at the golf course?
Where does she get the keys to the other guy's car when the leopard jumps into it on the curbside?
Her character was annoying (insolent, manipulating, egocentric), as was Cary's (bumbling, milquetoast, spineless).
It's weird how the viewing public of that era thought these traits "hilarious".
Cukor did a much better job in "Holiday" imo.
You are assuming that people didn't leave their keys in their cars back then. They may well have. I would expect that if they didn't Hawks' would have thought of some other way for Susan to get the cars.
shareI know in the 50s people left their keys in their cars all the time, so they probably did in the 30s as well.
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I saw the 1938 movie "I am the Law" starring Edward G. Robinson. One of the characters asks to borrow the key to Robinson's car, which he uses to start it.
shareThe starter button wouldn't work unless the system was unlocked with a key first. Later it became common for the two functions to be combined.
shareFilms of the period are full of people jumping into other peoples' cars and driving away, so it apparently was not an outlandish concept.
shareI'm only in my 20s so I'm no expert, but I was under the impression from a lot of classic movies that keys were normally kept in cars. In City Lights when the wealthy drunk gives the Tramp his nice car, Chaplin just jumps in and drives off several times in the film.
And not even just in the very old days. In Terminator 2, John teaches the T-800 to look above the sun visor before trying to hot wire. Was it even common practice in the '80s and early '90s to leave your keys in your car?
Heck, I live in a 'small town' now, and many people leave their keys in their car - some even in the ignition... houses are often unlocked during the day.
shareI remember public service announcements on TV in the 60's advising people to not leave their keys in their car as part of a police effort to reduce car thefts.
The campaign appears to have been successful.
Keys and security devices are obviously far more sophisticated today.
I remember seeing instances of lost keys with friends' 60's model vehicles, where occasionally another same model car's keys would open and even start a car.
Then of course as others have mentioned, David simply may have left his keys in the vehicle.
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