His Girl Friday - The Criterion Collection

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 restoration of the 1931 film The Front Page, Lewis Milestone's famous pre-Code adaptation of the same material.

Special Features

Bonus Footage, Interviews: David Bordwell (film scholar); Howard Hawks (director)., 4K digital restoration of 'The Front Page' (1931); Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Howard Hawks and Rosalind Russell; Radio adaptation of 'His Girl Friday' from 1940; Programme about the restoration of 'The Front Page'; Programme about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht; Radio adaptations of 'The Front Page' from 1937 and 1946; Essays on 'His Girl Friday' and 'The Front Page' by Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow (film critics); Cover by Randy Glass., Trailers

Actors: Porter Hall, Roscoe Karns, Gene Lockhart, Rosalind Russell, Ernest Truex, Clarence Kolb, Cary Grant, Regis Toomey, Ralph Bellamy, Cliff Edwards

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 92 minutes

Number of Discs: 3

Subtitle Languages: English

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