His Girl Friday (1940)

Review: His Girl Friday (1940)

Director: Howard Hawks

Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack,

Cary Grant
Cary Grant
Rosalind Russell
Rosalind Russell
Ralph Bellamy
Ralph Bellamy
Gene Lockhart
Gene Lockhart
Helen Mack
Helen Mack

Plot: Hildy, the journalist former wife of newspaper editor Walter Burns, visits his office to inform him that she's engaged and will be getting remarried the next day. Walter can't let that happen and frames the fiancé, Bruce Baldwin, for one thing after another, to keep him temporarily held in prison, while trying to steer Hildy into returning to her old job as his employee.

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Classic Howard Hawks on Blu-ray

Classic Howard Hawks on Blu-ray

His Girl Friday (1940) and Only Angels Have Wings (1939), two of Howard Hawks’ most critically acclaimed movies, have received excellent treatment from Criterion on Blu-ray, along with a restored transfer of Lewis Milestone’s pre-code […]

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