dir. Howard Hawks
1940 // 1 hr 32 min // Digital Projection
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalin Russell
Full of machine-gun fast dialogue and perfect comedic timing, “His Girl Friday” is a masterpiece of screwball comedy. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell blaze through a gender-flipped newsroom battle of wits, romance, and journalistic ethics, speaking faster than most films canthink. Director Howard Hawks turns workplace comedy into a high-speed sport, creating one of the sharpest, funniest films Hollywood ever produced, and still a classic for comic dialogue.
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