All bets are off in Howard Hawks’ wily, laugh-out-loud romantic comedy as newspaper editor Cary Grant creates all sorts of chaos to entice his star reporter and ex-wife Rosalind Russell back into his life.
Ace reporter Hildy Johnson (a never-better Rosalind Russell) is on the eve of retirement and marriage to a staid insurance man (Ralph Bellamy at his most Ralph Bellamy-est) when she is talked into one more assignment by her ex-husband, the unscrupulous editor Walter Burns (a hysterical Cary Grant). While Hildy works on a story about an innocent death-row inmate, Walter works on keeping his ex-wife on the job—and in his life. With rat-a-tat dialogue that will make your head spin, searing commentary about the corruption found in the media and politics, and undeniable electricity between Grant and Russell, His Girl Friday has long endured as one of classic Hollywood’s greatest comedies. [92 min; comedy, romance; English]
“One of the all-time great motion pictures—if anyone ever elects to place a screwball comedy in a time capsule for 25th-century historians to analyze, it might as well be this one.” — Matt Brunson, Film Frenzy
“So long as Hollywood is determined to have remakes, may they follow in the footsteps of His Girl Friday.” — Herbert Cohn, Brooklyn Daily Eagle
“A crackling, ingenious, and almost bewilderingly lively film.” — Alan Dent, The Guardian
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