His Girl Friday (1940)
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Reviews Counted:34
Fresh:33
Rotten:1
Average Rating:8.6/10
Consensus: Anchored by stellar performances from Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell, His Girl Friday is a classic screwball romantic comedy.
Runtime: 1 hr 57 mins
Genre: Comedies
Synopsis: In Howard Hawks's screwball masterpiece adapted from the stage play THE FRONT PAGE by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, star reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), once married to suave editor... [More]
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart
Director: Howard Hawks
Reviews for His Girl Friday
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A delirious joy. Full Review |
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Perhaps the funniest, certainly the fastest talkie comedy ever made. Full Review |
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5/5 |
brilliant
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5/5 |
Howard Hawks' finest moment. Full Review |
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The ultimate lesson of His Girl Friday--that it's tougher to manage a marriage than a newspaper--looks in 2008 like pure nostalgia. Full Review |
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Cary Grant's performance is truly virtuoso -- stunning technique applied to the most challenging material. Full Review |
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It's exactly the type of craziness that good newspapers thrive on. Stop the presses. Full Review |
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Casting is excellent, with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell in the top roles. Full Review |
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One of the best screwball comedies, a remake that improves on the source material due to Hawks brilliant idea of changing the protag's gender thus turning it into a romantic "newspaper" film; Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, and Ralph Bellamy at their best Full Review |
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5/5 |
O ritmo frenético com que os excelentes diálogos são trocados (algo inovador para a época) e o timing cômico impecável de Grant e Russell garantem a permanência deste filme na lista de clássicos inquestionáveis.
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3/5 |
A double espresso is needed to keep up with the rapid-fire exchanges of Hawks' no-holds-barred muckraking comedy. Full Review |
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I've tried to love His Girl Friday, really I have. Full Review |
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It's the energy of "His Girl Friday" that grabs you, its heated lines of dialogue that leave you satisfied and spent. Full Review |
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Cary Grant as the ruthless fast-talking sharpie newspaper editor gives one of his finest performances. Full Review |
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