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zingy
College Boy Z
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 His Girl Friday His Girl Friday Quote: His Girl Friday is a 1940 American screwball comedy film directed by Howard Hawks, an adaptation by Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur of the play The Front Page by Hecht and MacArthur. The change in this version is that the role of Hildy Johnson was converted from male to female.
The film stars Cary Grant as Walter Burns and Rosalind Russell as Hildy Johnson and features Ralph Bellamy as Bruce Baldwin. It is noted for its rapid-fire dialogue.
The film was #19 on American Film Institute's 100 Years…100 Laughs and has been selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. The film is in the public domain, even though the 1928 play it is based on is still under copyright. This has not kept Columbia Pictures from officially releasing the film on home video (many unauthorized releases of varying quality also exist from different companies).
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deathawk
Madoshi
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One of the best screwballs, and the defining Howard Hawks comedy. The "plot" is not really important, the film is centered around Grant and Russell in a proto-typical screwball setup. But what makes it Hawks is the speed. The dialogue and plot proceed at breakneck pace with no let up. The defining moment is almost at the beginning when Grant races through a set up piece while Russell beneath him imitates an actioneer (brbrbrbrbrbrbrrrrrrrrrr....sold for 50 american!). A must see film produced when the studio system was at its height.
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BacktotheFuture
I'm Batman
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Location: Long Island
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This film is in the public domain. Maybe I'll check it out online.
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Johnny Dollar
The Lubitsch Touch
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Re: His Girl Friday Love the speed of the thing, but it's far from my favorite screwball. The Front Page, even in '41, was simply too tired as material. But the relationship fun works wonderfully; Grant and (especially) Russell are at the top of their game.
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snack
Extraordinary
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Re: His Girl Friday pretty much one of the best movies ever
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junio
Indiana Jones IV
Joined: Sat May 07, 2005 2:23 pm
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Re: His Girl Friday I just seen this for the first time. Man, it was good! What velocity with words, this rivals Bringing Up Baby as far as speed with words goes! Cary Grant gives a great performance, I think it may be my favorite of his that I have seen so far. Rosalind Russell I don't think I had ever seen any of her movies, but she's a revelation, 70 years after the fact. Her performance is up wih K.Hep's in Baby. Glory be to Howard Hawks!
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Michael A
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Re: His Girl Friday I expected to love it, but not like this. Easily one of the most enjoyable and entertaining movies I've ever seen. I haven't been impacted by a movie like this since All About Eve after a first view. Absolutely brilliant and indescribably amazing. I've been on a Howard Hawks kick lately I just realized, seen this, bringing up baby, and The Big Sleep. I was beginning to wonder what all the hype about him was, I liked the other two quite a bit but they didn't strike me as revelations, nothing that compared to Billy Wilder at his best. But this was a revelation, I can't wait to watch it again (and probably will in about 12 hours.)
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Shack
Devil's Advocate
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 2:30 am
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Re: His Girl Friday Watching the fast paced dialog and characters talking over each other was entertaining, and Rosalind Russell, an actress I didn't know was great. I found it a somewhat cynical movie and not just a lighthearted screwball, as these characters are basically sociopaths who don't care who gets in their way for the story, especially Cary Grant's character. It is an interesting watch with journalism currently at an all time low in 2020. The tone of the movie would be different if he was genuinely hoping for the best thing for her at the end, but since he was just fucking around and had put her fiancee in jail again, it's clear neither of them had learned anything about why their marriage didn't work the first time and she was just addicted to the jerk/the job again.
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