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His Girl Friday (1940)
Criterion Collection

English · 4K Ultra HD

UK Version

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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 newswriters 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 remarriage comedy. Also presented here is a brand-new restoration of the 1931 The Front Page, the famous pre-Code adaptation of the same material, directed by Lewis Milestone.

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Actor Porter Hall, Ralph Bellamy, Helen Mack, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Cary Grant
Director Howard Hawks
Label Criterion Collection
 
Languages English
Content 4K Ultra HD
Edition Criterion Collection
FSK / age rating from age 12
Publication date 08.12.2025
Genre Comedy
 
Audio English
Subtitles English
Year of production 1940
Original title His Girl Friday
Version UK Version
 

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