His Girl Friday
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Movie Reviews of His Girl Friday
Movie Review: His Girl Friday
Summary: 4 Stars
Great movie. Great price. Although on this copy of the DVD there is clicking background noise that isn't so great, but after a few minutes of watching the movie you don't notice it anymore.Movie Review: For all Cary Grant fans
Summary: 4 Stars
This is Cary Grant at his debonair best. He's sexy, funny, and a smart aleck. Rosalind Russell is hilarious also. A definite must see for old time movie buffs.Movie Review: Fast paced, intelligent comedy
Summary: 3 Stars
Why is it that so many people overrate old movies and call them the greatest of all time when they simply aren't? This is a good movie, no question about it. But why do people go overboard about good old movies and act as if they are better than all the rest?
Watch this one and then watch The Lady Eve starring Barbara Stanwyck. There are some excellent lines here, and the plot is a good one, but The Lady Eve is far superior. People say that this movie is smart, and it is, but The Lady Eve is a lot smarter, has a lot more heart, and is just much better.
There's something tinny about this. About Cary Grant's character, always bs'ing everyone. About all the fast talking. There are a few scenes during which I was thinking that the director hurried the actors through their lines to the point where it was not believable. People do have to think before they can speak. Some of these frenetic scenes are rushed through. Others sustain the fast pace very well.
The characters played by Barbara Stanwyck and Henry Fonda in The Lady Eve are genuinely adorable. The same can't be said here. Cary Grant is a lot to take, in this movie, and Hildy isn't a heart throb either. There's more appeal and more heart in The Lady Eve.
It is unfair to compare any film to the Stanwyck-Fonda classic, but the other reviews on this site force me to it, because they make the inaccurate claim that His Girl Friday is one of the best movies ever made. I'm pointing you to a movie that really is, as opposed to this one.
This movie has some great laughs though. A few of the throwaway lines really got me. I like when Cary Grant opens the rollup desk in which the killer is hiding and calls him a mock turtle, or whatever he calls him.
There's a bit of silliness early on when Cary Grant looks at his rival, the insurance salesman from Albany, and says he looks like Ralph Bellamy. That's cute, considering that he is being played by Ralph Bellamy. Talk about taking away the fourth wall.
This is a good movie, but one of my pet peeves is just how often reviewers will call every good old movie one of the greatest of all time. That makes about 400 movies the greatest of all time.
Movie Review: So So
Summary: 2 Stars
His Girl Friday is an OK movie about newspaper reporters in the early part of the 20th century. I think it was supposed to be funny, and it may have been at the time, but most of the dialog was lost on me.Movie Review: BAD DVD, OVERRATED MOVIE
Summary: 1 Stars
For some reasons I have never been able to get into this film. I find it's madcap antics way too over the top for my taste. Roz Russell and Cary Grant are fine but I have found it impossible to follow the rapid-fire story. Perhaps if we were given a decent DVD transfer, fully restored, I would change my mind. The DVD is so bad its almost unwatchable. This may be the reason I have never been able to get into this movie because the film quality is so poor. This is a film in dire need of restoration because it cannot be fully appreciated. (Just a warning......any time you see a classic film in the bargain bin without the "Turner", "Warner", "UNIVERSAL" or "20th Century Fox" trademark, it is a generic DVD and the quality will be poor. A few others like this......"Penny Serenade, Meet John Doe, A Farewell to Arms"), etc.