His girl Friday

DVD 2017

Hildy Johnson is an reporter who is matched in force only by her conniving-but-charismatic ex-editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, 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.

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Divorced people Fiction

Journalists Fiction

Man-woman relationships Fiction

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Feature films Fiction Video recordings for the hearing impaired

Part of a Series:

Criterion collection Criterion collection ; 849 Criterion collection ; 849 DVD

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ISBN:

9781681432335

Edition:

Two-DVD special edition

Description:

2 videodiscs (92 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 inches
digital optical
video file DVD video region 1
monochrome

Target Audience Note:

Other Title:

Howard Hawks' His girl Friday

Notes:

Based on the play The front page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, as produced by Jed Harris
Originally released as a motion picture in 1940
Special features: New 4K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931); New interview with film scholar David Bordwell; Archival interviews with Howard Hawks; Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of His Girl Friday; Radio adaptation from 1940; New piece about the restoration of The Front Page; New piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht; Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946; Trailers; Booklet
Director of photography, Joseph Walker ; editor, Gene Havlick ; musical director, M.W. Stoloff
Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall
For private home use only
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing

Contents:

Disc 1. His girl Friday
Disc 2. The front page

Control Number:

1998114

UPC:

715515189613

Other Authors:

Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991, actor
Columbia Pictures Corporation, production company
Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor
Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor
Hall, Porter, 1888-1953, actor
Havlick, Gene, 1894-1959, editor of moving image work
Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977, film director
Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976, screenwriter
Lockhart, Gene, 1891-1957, actor
Mack Chang, Helen, actor
Russell, Rosalind, actor
Stoloff, Morris, 1898-1980, musical director
Walker, Joseph B., director of photography
motion picture adaptation of (work): Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964. Front page

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