His Girl Friday (1940), The Front Page (1931) 2 x DVD9 and 2 x Blu-Ray Criterion Collection
on August 23rd, 2018 at 14:42
The Criterion Collection launches its 2017 campaign today with a raucous one-two punch that summons fond memories of Hollywood’s Golden Age while jabbing its finger into the chest of today’s corrupt media hacks. "His Girl Friday", that epitome of classic screwball comedy, gets the deluxe treatment in a handsome dual-disc Blu-ray edition that also serves as a fancy showcase for its influential predecessor "The Front Page".
The key characters of this very good remake of Lewis Milestone's film "The Front Page" are Walter Burns, (Cary Grant), a prominent editor of a big newspaper in Chicago, and Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), a brilliant reporter with an impressive record. They are former colleagues and partners who have recently divorced and agreed to stay out of each other's lives so that they can quickly rebuild them. But Walter has not been entirely honest and has come up with a desperate plan to stop Hildy from relocating to Albany with her next husband (Ralph Bellamy), an insurance agent who believes that his future wife cannot wait to share an old family house with his mother. Walter's plan is to distract Hildy with a big case and convince her to cover it for him in exchange for a big fat check.
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