Product Details

• Actors: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall
• Format: Black & White, EP, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Gaiam, Inc.
• VHS Release Date: October 12, 2001
• Run Time: 92 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0000065ND
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #621,714 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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217 of 228 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Get the "Cary Grant on Film" version! D3K gets 0 stars!, April 15, 2000

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M. Dufarge (Nashville, TN) - See all my reviews

This review is from: His Girl Friday/Cary Grant on Film: A Biography (DVD)

This is one on my favorite movies of all time. The dialog is fast, funny and SMART. Plus, the gender treatment is fascinating, and not dated in the slightest. But . . . WARNING! Avoid the D3K DVD at all costs. It is truly the most horrendous digital transfer I have ever encountered. The picture is fuzzy and the dialogue almost incomprehensible. I have a five-year-old VHS copy of a TV broadcast of the movie that has much better sound/picture quality. To make things worse, the feature menus on the DVD are poorly designed, so that you cannot tell what you are selecting. And the makers had the audacity to have a whole menu with the credits for production of the DVD. I can't believe how mad I got trying to use this DVD.

Luckily my friend had another version I could compare (and eventually buy). The "His Girl Friday/Cary Grant on Film" version is superb in comparison: Dialog is crisp, picture sharp. It has a bonus documentary, Tony Curtis introduction and the trailer. And IT COSTS LESS than the D3K. This version is a winner.

63 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Unbearable Image and Sound Quality, January 6, 2000

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Richard Shupe "Rich Shupe" (New York, NY USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: His Girl Friday (DVD)

Avoid this product at all costs. This great movie is ruined on this disc. The image quality is awful and continuously blurred. The sound quality is equally fuzzy. It's like watching a movie with your head wrapped in cheese cloth.

Amazon should stop selling this disc on the grounds of defective merchandise.

96 of 106 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Technical/quality issues, December 9, 1999

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John M. Dlugosz (Allen, TX United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: His Girl Friday (DVD)

I'm sure you know that this classic movie is great. The DVD itself, on the other hand, is not what I've come to expect regarding restoration and remastering and whatnot. Bottom line is, the quality was as bad as the "bargain bin" VHS tapes of old movies that I quickly learned to avoid. In particular the sound was badly degraded, with a hiss that made it difficult to understand the dialog towards the beginning (that improved somewhat, but it was still bad). That's particularly annoying because I could clean it up better than that myself, with a trivial application of "Cool Edit" shareware! Clearly, this is a direct scan of poor quality original and zero work went into presenting it. The picture, too, is full of flickering spots and the whole thing has a soft out-of-focus look to it. If you just have to have this film in your collection, be resigned to the poor quality. If you're just looking, ask yourself if it's cheap enough for the lousy job.