His Girl Friday
Columbia / TriStar (1940)
Comedy, Romance
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043396267091
IMDB   8.1
1 hr 32 mins USA / English
DVD  Region 1   NR
Cary Grant Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell Hildy Johnson
Ralph Bellamy Bruce Baldwin
Gene Lockhart Sheriff Hartwell
Helen Mack Molly Mally
Porter Hall Murphy
Ernest Truex Bensinger
Cliff Edwards Endicott
Clarence Kolb Mayor
Roscoe Karns McCue
Frank Jenks Wilson
Regis Toomey Sanders
John Qualen Earl Williams
Director
Howard Hawks
Producer Howard Hawks
Writer Charles Lederer
Ben Hecht
Charles MacArthur


"As Fresh And Undated And Bright A Film As You Could Want." -The New Yorker

Considered by many to be the best of Howard Hawks' comedies (Bringing Up Baby, I Was A Male War Bride), His Girl Friday was adapted from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's oft-filmed Broadway smash "The Front Page," with a screenplay by Charles Lederer. Hawks changed the sex of one of the amle leads, and revamped the spoof of newspapers and news hounds into a hilarious and sophisticated battle of the sexes and battle of the exes. When ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell, never better) announces she's leaving the newspaper world behind to settle into domesticity with a stuffy fiance (Ralph Bellamy), her demanding editor and ex-husband Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is determined to keep her on staff and win back her heart in the process.
Edition Details
Distributor Sony Pictures
Chapters 28
Release Date 11/21/2000
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles Chinese; English; French; Korean; Portuguese; Spanish; Thai
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC]
SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
Layers Single Side, Single Layer
No. of Disks/Tapes 1

Features
Audio Commentary With Film Critic & Author Todd McCarthy
Four Exclusive Featurettes
Vintage Advertising
Theatrical Trailers
Talent Files
Interactive Menus
Production Notes
Scene Selections