His Girl Friday (1940) 8.0
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Director:Howard Hawks |
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His Girl Friday (1940) 8.0
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying. Director:Howard Hawks |
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| Rosalind Russell | ... | ||
| Ralph Bellamy | ... | ||
| Gene Lockhart | ... |
Sheriff Peter B. Hartwell
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Porter Hall | ... |
Murphy
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Ernest Truex | ... |
Roy B. Bensinger
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Clarence Kolb | ... |
Fred - Mayor
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Frank Jenks | ... |
Wilson
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| Regis Toomey | ... |
Sanders
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Abner Biberman | ... |
Louie
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Frank Orth | ... |
Duffy
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Helen Mack | ... | |
Walter Burns, editor of a major Chicago newspaper, is about to lose his ace reporter and former wife, Hildy Johnson, to insurance salesman Bruce Baldwin, but not without a fight! The crafty editor uses every trick in his fedora to get Hildy to write one last big story, about murderer Earl Williams and the inept Sheriff Hartwell. The comedy snowballs as William's friend, Molly Malloy, the crooked Mayor, and Bruce's mother all get tied up in Walter's web. Written by Steve Fenwick <scf@w0x0f.com>
I just finished watching the DVD of this first-class, semi-Screwball comedy in Columbia Classics beautiful transfer, and it absolutely made my day! What a movie! What a screenplay! The dialogue is better - more modern - in fact, than a in lot of contemporary movies. It's incredibly funny, too, and my teenage sons kept laughing right along with me at the smart come-backs. Cary Grant is, of course, as good (if not better) than ever, and I've never seen Rosalind Russel in a role that suited her more perfectly. And that's just for starters: The timing of the thing is still awe- inspiring after sixty-odd years; the supporting actors, down to the bit-players, are all memorable, convincing and hilarious; the camera work (this IS the forties, though) is inventive and the editing superb. I can safely confess now that I hadn't ever seen it before, but that's no reason for you to make the same mistake: Go buy/rent it NOW! Hats off to the great Howard Hawks, his cast and crew for pulling this comedy masterpiece off. And thank you, thank you, thank you Columbia Pictures, for
making it possible for me to watch it in such pristine condition! (I've got the 2002 edition, and from what I've heard you should beware of earlier DVD issues).