HIS GIRL FRIDAY [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1940
• Genre: Classic, Comedy, Romance
• Plot: One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema's powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife. When adapting Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's smash hit play The Front Page, director Howard Hawks had the inspired idea of turning star reporter Hildy Johnson into a woman, and the result is an immortal mix of hard-boiled newsroom setting with ebullient remarriage comedy. Also presented here is a brand-new restoration of the 1931 film The Front Page, Lewis Milestone's famous pre-Code adaptation of the same material.;
• Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen, Helen Mack, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Pat West, Edwin Maxwell, Irving Bacon, Wade Boteler, Harry C. Bradley, Wheaton Chambers, Edmund Cobb, Ann Doran, Ralph Dunn, Earl Dwire, Pat Flaherty, Eddie Hart, Marion Martin, Howard Hawks, Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Morrie Ryskind, Joseph Walker, Gene Havlick, Sidney Cutner, Felix Mills, Lodge Cunningham, Lionel Banks
• Director: Howard Hawks
• Runtime: 1:32
• Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation, Hecht & MacArthur, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, UNLV Department of Film, The Film Foundation, The Criterion Collection
• Media Format: Movie