No Time for Love (1943 film)

No Time for Love is a 1943 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Mitchell Leisen and starring Claudette Colbert and Fred MacMurray. Written by Claude Binyon, Robert Lees, and Frederic I. Rinaldo, the film is about a sophisticated female photographer assigned to photograph the tough sandhog construction workers at a tunnel project site. After saving one of the sandhogs from a fatal accident, she becomes attracted to this cocky wellbuilt man they call Superman. Unsettled by her feelings, she hires the man as her assistance, believing that her attraction to him will diminish if she spends time with him. Their time together, however, leads to feelings of love, and she struggles to overcome her haughtiness and make her true feelings known.

Mirror magazines top photographer Katherine Grant Claudette Colbert is assigned to photograph the Interborough Vehicular River Tunnel project in New York City. Wearing a hardhat and boots, the beautiful photographer is taken underground to the construction site where she is not greeted warmly by the superstitious tunnel workers, called sandhogs, who believe that women in the tunnel bring bad luck. When she sneaks closer to the drilling point to get a better view, her presence distracts some of the workers and causes an accident that nearly kills Jim Ryan Fred MacMurray, the cocky wellbuilt sandhog they call Superman. When she sees the unconscious Ryan about to be crushed by a machine, she drags him to safety.Later in the compression chamber, a revived Ryan gets into a fistfight with his coworkers after they taunt him about being saved by a woman. During the brawl, Katherine photographs Ryan as hes beating up the other sandhogs. On their way out of the tunnel, Ryan notices that Katherine is flirting with him and tells her hes not interested. Insulted by the brush off, she informs him that she has a boudoir chair with more integrity than he has. ........

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