Release Date: Nov 21, 2000 Region: 1 Runtime: 92 mins Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Audio:
ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Mono [CC] SPANISH: Dolby Digital Mono
Video:
Standard 1.33:1 B&W
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, Thai Packaging: Keep Case Rating: NR Features:
Audio Commentary With Film Critic & Author Todd McCarthy Four Exclusive Featurettes Vintage Advertising Theatrical Trailers Talent Files Interactive Menus Production Notes Scene Selections
Commentary From Film Critic And Author Todd McCarthy Cary Grant Making Headlines Featurette Howard Hawks Reporters Notebook Featurette Rosalind Russell The Inside Scoop Featurette The Funny Pages Featurette Vintage Advertising Photo Gallery Theatrical Trailer Filmographies
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