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Howard Hawk's His girl Friday / Columbia Pictures Corporation presents ; screen play by Charles Lederer ; directed by Howard Hawks.

Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977 (film director.). Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976 (screenwriter.). Grant, Cary, 1904-1986 (actor.). Russell, Rosalind, (actor.). Bellamy, Ralph, 1904-1991 (actor.). Lockhart, Gene, 1891-1957 (actor.). Mack, Helen, (actor.). Hall, Porter, 1888-1953 (actor.). Walker, Joseph B., (director of photography.). Havlick, Gene, 1894-1959 (editor of moving image work.). Stoloff, Morris, 1898-1980 (musical director.). Milestone, Lewis, 1895-1980 (film director.). Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963 (actor.). O'Brien, Pat, 1899-1983 (actor.). Horton, Edward Everett, (actor.). Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964 Motion picture adaptation of (work): Front page. (Added Author). MacArthur, Charles, 1895-1956 (author.). Criterion Collection (Firm), (publisher.). Columbia Pictures Corporation, (production company.). Caddo Company, (production company.). His girl Friday: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall. (Cast). The front page: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Edward Everett Horton. (Cast).

Summary:

Hildy Johnson is a 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.

Record details

ISBN: 9781681432335
ISBN: 1681432331
Physical Description: 2 videodiscs (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Edition: Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher: [New York, N.Y.] : The Criterion Collection, [2017]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. Based on the play The front page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, as produced by Jed Harris. 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; 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.
Formatted Contents Note:	disc 1. His girl Friday (92 min. ; 1940) -- disc 2. The front page (101 min. ; 1931) / The Caddo Company ; directed by Lewis Milestone ; written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director of photography, Joseph Walker ; editor, Gene Havlick ; musical director, M.W. Stoloff.
Participant or Performer Note:	His girl Friday: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall. The front page: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Edward Everett Horton.
System Details Note:	DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1 screen ratio); Dolby digital monaural.
Language Note:	English dialogue with optional SDH English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.