His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday
by Howard Hawks

His Girl Friday
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Actor: Cary Grant, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ralph Bellamy, Rosalind Russell
Director: Howard Hawks
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Producer: Howard Hawks
Editor: Gene Havlick
Writer: Ben Hecht
Writer: Charles Lederer
Writer: Charles MacArthur
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); French (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 92 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2002-10-01
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Good Times Video

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Movie Review: a classic
Summary: 5 Stars

why don't they make movies with great writing and strong interaction between men and women anymore? this is a must see if you like comedy, wit, and are a fan of the black-and-whites such as all the Thin Man movies.

Summary of His Girl Friday

Cary gran & rosalind russell star in thie rapid-fire version of the hit the front page. Studio: Gaiam Americas Release Date: 10/01/2002 Starring: Cary Grant Rosalind Russell
The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made about professional camaraderie and fierce love-hate friendships. Lewis Milestone's 1931 movie is well respected (Billy Wilder's 1974 version isn't), but this is one case where the remake towers brilliantined head and blocked shoulders above the original.

Howard Hawks had the inspired notion of making Hildy Johnson--the ace newsman whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--a she instead of a he. What's more, she's not only Walter's star reporter but also his ex-wife. When Hildy (Rosalind Russell) comes to tell Walter (Cary Grant) she's leaving the newspaper business, he bamboozles her into carrying out one last assignment--a death-row interview with a little nebbish (John Qualen) convicted of killing a policeman. It sounds like a snap, but before you can say screwball comedy, the press room of the Criminal Courts Building has become ground zero for all the lunacy a jailbreak, a shooting, an impromptu suicide, a corrupt city administration, and the most Machiavellian "hero" in the American cinema can supply.

His Girl Friday is one of the, oh, five greatest dialogue comedies ever made; Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Russell, not Hawks's first choice to play Hildy, is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Grant is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T. Jameson

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