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  • A glossed over example, but David managing to be a skilled paleontologist despite his various absent-minded moments.
  • The way Huxley's able to help Susan when he dress gets torn. He covers the opening in her torn gown with his crushed top hat, and conceals and shields her posterior from prying eyes by pressing his body close to her. It also doubles as a heartwarming moment.
  • Susan's manipulation skills through the film.
    • She tricked David into coming to her place by pretending to be attacked by her brother's leopard.
    • She forced to him to go with her to her aunt's farm by sending Baby the leopard to follow him on his way out, and driving behind him.
  • Any time Katharine Hepburn's character displays her Motor Mouth capabilities.
  • David wrestling Baby the leopard in a pond. Too bad it happened off-screen.
  • During the third section of the film, Susan was able to capture a vicious circus leopard (not Baby) and drag him toward the jail
  • Then when Susan finds out the leopard wasn't Baby, she freaks out, but is saved by David who steps in front of Susan with a chair, and defends her from the vicious leopard by chasing it into an empty jail cell and all before he fainted.I
  • David gets another one towards the very end when he saves Susan from falling to her death, by catching her from his collapsing dinosaur skeleton. And with one arm!
  • The sole fact that this film was one of the first American films to get away with using the term "gay" as a reference to homosexuality.

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