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His Girl Friday [1940]
starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall
directed by: Howard Hawks

Used Price: £0.53

Audience Rating: Universal, suitable for all
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 5024165765180
Format: Black & White, PAL, Special Edition
Label: Delta Visual Entertainment
Manufacturer: Delta Visual Entertainment
Number Of Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Delta Visual Entertainment
Release Date: October 26, 1998
Running Time: 96 minutes
Studio: Delta Visual Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1940
Sales Rank: 12814

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk Review:
His Girl Friday is one of the five greatest dialogue comedies ever made. Howard 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. Rosalind Russell, not Hawks' first choice to play Hildy Johnson--the ace newsperson whom demonic editor Walter Burns is trying to keep from quitting and getting married--is triumphant in the part, holding her own as "one of the guys" and creating an enduring feminist icon. Cary Grant's Walter Burns 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, Amazon.com

Customer Reviews

Average Rating: out of 5 stars

Rating:

- Pitter patter
In terms of picture quality there are some unsatisfactory DVD versions of `His Girl Friday' but there is nothing wrong with this particular item (Columbia Classics CDR 19838). The film remains fresher than many old comedies and stands up to repeated viewings. It is sharply written, briskly directed, superbly cast and well played from top to bottom. Watching this is a great way to stay cheerful on a rainy evening indoors.

Rating:

- His Girl Friday
In the best traditions of American black and white film comedy but too outdated to watch in this day and age even for an oldie like me. Excellent picture quality.

Rating:

- One of the most extraordinary comedies of all time
With Howard Hawks in the director's chair and Cary Grant in the lead role, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a good time. His Girl Friday isn't the first or last film adaptation of the 1928 play The Front Page, but it is easily the best. This thing comes at you a mile a minute, with dialogue that starts out at break-neck speed and never slows down and more humorous moments than you can find time to laugh at. It's an unusual romantic comedy, given the fact that Cary Grant's character is a little less than noble (he is a rather ruthless newspaper man, after all) and the nice guy in the picture is lucky to finish at all, but there's still something endearing about the whole relationship between Walter Burns (Grant) and his former ace reporter ... Read More:

Rating:

- Don't bother!
Of course the original movie is a terrific piece of work but this version is very, very disappointing. The picture quality is poor - out of focus and too much contrast, and the sound quality isn't much better. Also a considerable portion of the image at the sides simply isn't there at all. Overall it looks like a bad pirated version or a copy of a copy of a copy.

Rating:

- crap
I wanted to give this edition of HGF zero stars, but 1 seems to be the minimum.
This is the worst DVD I ever bought. No extras, no subtitles, no scene selection, no nothing. And on top of that, the image quality is horrible. I couldn't watch it for more than just a few minutes.

Just stay away from this edition.

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