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- 1940
- TV-G
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
- 1940
- TV-G
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
Summary When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Morrie Ryskind
- 1940
- TV-G
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
- 1940
- TV-G
- Columbia Pictures
- 1 h 32 m
His Girl Friday
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Summary When a newspaper editor's ace reporter ex-wife is about to quit her job and remarry, he buys himself time to win her back by promising her an exclusive interview with a death row convict.
Directed By: Howard Hawks
Written By: Charles Lederer, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Morrie Ryskind
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Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
94
100% Positive
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0% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Ex-Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's "The Front Page" may be the greatest of all newspaper plays, but none of the other movie versions matches this snazzy remake. [04 May 2001, p.C1]
The play is hilarious, and Hawks enlivened it with his famous staccato direction. He gives no breaks for viewers to laugh without missing the next line. The brilliant dialogue comes so thick and fast that you almost have to tape the film to get it all. So, do. [31 Mar 2000]
With great verbal athleticism, the film earns its reputation as one of the fastest-talking comedies ever made.
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By Staff (Not Credited) FULL REVIEW
They no longer make the fizzing, dangerous compound that is Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell’s chemistry in His Girl Friday.
By Kate Muir FULL REVIEW
Roughest spots in the original versions have been sandpapered or excised, the pressroom’s whiskey cynicism toned down to half of one per cent, but the comedy still has enough Hecht-MacArthur kick to make later interpolations smell synthetic.
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Awards
Photoplay Awards
• 3 Wins & 3 Nominations
National Film Preservation Board, USA
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Online Film & Television Association
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
