His Girl Friday (DVD)

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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 cinemas 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 thats supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife. When adapting Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthurs 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 Milestones famous pre-Code adaptation of the same material.

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Format DVD
Release Date Jan 10, 2017
Genre Comedy
Actors 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
Director Howard Hawks
Screen Format Fullscreen
Special Feature TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES: New high-definition digital restoration; New 2K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931), made from a recently discovered print of the director's preferred version; New interview with film scholar David Bord
Language English
Sub Titles English SDH
Video Aspect 1.33:1
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