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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0018111997034
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Delta
Manufacturer: Delta
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Delta
Release Date: November 16, 1999
Running Time: 120 minutes
Sales Rank: 44996
Studio: Delta
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1940
Editorial Review:
Description:
This hilarious re-working of The Front Page teams Grant and Rosalind Russell. This version adds the twin lures of sex and romance. Undoubtedly Grant’s greatest comedic role.
Includes 'Cary Grant On Film' - a documentary, an intro by Tony Curtis, and the trailer for Gunga Din.
Menus: English • Spanish • Chinese • Japanese
Subtitles: Spanish • Chinese • Japanese
B&W/Color
Running Time: 121 min.
Amazon.com essential video:
The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made about professional camaraderie and fierce love-hate friendships. Lewis Milestone's 1931 movie is well respected (Billy Wilder's 1974 version isn't), but this is one case where the remake towers brilliantined head and blocked shoulders above the original.
Howard Hawks had the inspired notion of making Hildy Johnson--the ace newsman whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--a she instead of a he. What's more, she's not only Walter's star reporter but also his ex-wife. When Hildy (Rosalind Russell) comes to tell Walter (Cary Grant) she's leaving the newspaper business, he bamboozles her into carrying out one last assignment--a death-row interview with a little nebbish (John Qualen) convicted of killing a policeman. It sounds like a snap, but before you can say screwball comedy, the press room of the Criminal Courts Building has become ground zero for all the lunacy a jailbreak, a shooting, an impromptu suicide, a corrupt city administration, and the most Machiavellian 'hero' in the American cinema can supply.
His Girl Friday is one of the, oh, five greatest dialogue comedies ever made; Hawks had his cast play it at breakneck speed, and audiences hyperventilate trying to finish with one laugh so they can do justice to the four that have accumulated in the meantime. Russell, not Hawks's first choice to play Hildy, is triumphant in the part, holding her own as 'one of the guys' and creating an enduring feminist icon. Grant is a force of nature, giving a performance of such concentrated frenzy and diamond brilliance that you owe it to yourself to devote at least one viewing of the movie to watching him alone. But then you have to go back (lucky you) and watch it again for the sake of the press-room gang--Roscoe Karns, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Regis Toomey, Frank Jenks, and others--the kind of ensemble work that gets character actors onto Parnassus. --Richard T. Jameson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - THOROUGHLY ENJOYABLE FAST PACED GRANT FILM!
I bought a box set containing this film and four other Grant classics, This being the second one I've watched is the best so far. This film is full of quick fire dialogue that is funny and intelligent. Grant and Russell are exceptional, but the entire cast is burning on all cylinders in this 70 years fresh "screwball" comedy. If you are looking for a place to start with Cary Grant.....this is a pretty safe bet! the DVD transfer is very good on the box set and it has some interesting extra material. ... Read More
Rating:  - His Girl Friday
Carey Grant and Rosselyn Ruselle are perfection in this movie!! They embody the strife of the women's movement clashing with the men!
Rating: - Fastest smartest dialogue there is. The screwballiest of the screwballs
Get a load of the title--pure irony. I mean, yeah, OK, Cary Grant DOES manage to get Rosalind Russell to revert back to her old newspaper ways, in spite of her initial adamant refusal to do so...but she really does it cause it's in her blood, not because good old Cary is a dominating type. She's NOT his girl Friday; she's her own person. Dig the Abe Lincoln stovepipe hat--nice touch. Newspaper people are honest. Yep, of course they are.
You can't get dialogue more whip smart, faster, and ... Read More
Rating: - His Girl Friday
ESSENTIAL MOVIE!!! Cary Grant was a comedic genius with near impeccable timing. Rosalind Russell was perfect counterpoint. The repartee between the two is fast, furious & witty. The director Howard Hawks put together one of the best comedies ever committed to film! Grant & Russell were married but now divorced before the movie starts. He's the editor of a newspaper & she's the ace reporter. They can't stand each other but they're the perfect team.
This is considered to be of the ... Read More
Rating: - "I often wish you weren't such a stinker!"
Cary Grant is such a great comedic actor! He doesn't even need to say anything - those facial expressions! Hilarious!
Walter Burns (Cary Grant) is the editor of the Morning newspaper and boss of his ex-wife, Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell). Hildy is an ace reporter who decides to get married and get away from the newspaper business to lead "a normal human life." After much convincing, Walter finally gets Hildy to write one last story for the paper before she leaves. And all the while he is trying ... Read More
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