Product Details

• Actors: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart
• Producers: Howard Hawks
• Format: Full Screen, NTSC, Surround Sound
• Region: All Regions
• Number of discs: 1
• Studio: Triad Productions LLC
• DVD Release Date: May 2, 2008
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0018SJ928
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #156,055 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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17 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best version or best shills?, January 16, 2009

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This review is from: His Girl Friday (Enhanced) 1940 (DVD)

Although I personally love this movie, I noticed that almost all of the reviewers of this version (supposedly "real name" ones as well) seem to be the same person, probably an employee of Triad Productions. I noticed that by clicking the "see all my reviews" hyperlink underneath the reviewers' names gave me a list of the products they had reviewed, and nearly all of them were movies produced by Triad Productions, and all were reviewed extremely favorably. Therefore, I have concluded that this is the same phenomena seen in the Dilbert cartoon [...] .
I find it highly suspicious that the reviewers of this product just happen to have written all their reviews about Triad Productions films and given all of them very favorable ratings.
This may be just a coincidence, but if it is it certainly is a huge one.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great Director and Stars at Their Very, Very Best, July 26, 2008

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This review is from: His Girl Friday (Enhanced) 1940 (DVD)

This review pertains to this version of His Girl Friday. I noticed a bad review and had to post this in response. My version recieved has no missing scenes. I believe that gentleman just got a defective copy. He should return it to Amazon instead of misleading people. This is by far the best version of this film I have owned. The video quality is clearly enhanced and the sound is clean and crisp

With Howard Hawks in the director's chair and Cary Grant in the lead role, you're pretty much guaranteed to have a good time. His Girl Friday isn't the first or last film adaptation of the 1928 play The Front Page, but it is easily the best. This thing comes at you a mile a minute, with dialogue that starts out at break-neck speed and never slows down and more humorous moments than you can find time to laugh at. It's an unusual romantic comedy, given the fact that Cary Grant's character is a little less than noble (he is a rather ruthless newspaper man, after all) and the nice guy in the picture is lucky to finish at all, but there's still something endearing about the whole relationship between Walter Burns (Grant) and his former ace reporter Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell), who also happens to be his ex-wife (in earlier adaptations of the story, Hildy was just a darn good male reporter). Hildy is due to get married in less than 24 hours, and Burns is desperate to win her back - for the newspaper as well as himself. The big city proves most cooperative in his endeavors, with a corrupt sheriff and mayor getting set to hang a "dangerous" little man for murder in order to bolster their bids for reelection in three days. And that's only the beginning of this screwball comedy story. This battle of the sexes turns into one of the most impressive battles of wits the big screen has ever seen, and the whole wild and crazy story makes for an extraordinary experience.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of my favorite old-time movies, August 4, 2010

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: His Girl Friday (Enhanced) 1940 (DVD)

Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson (played by Rosalind Russell) is a hard-boiled reported for The Morning Post, but she is ready to hang it all up and marry Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy), an insurance agent who is about as stable as a brick wall and almost as exciting. But, Hildy's editor, Walter Burns (Cary Grant) does not want to see her go, and he is not above using trickery to keep her. Burns arranges to have Baldwin arrested over and over again, but if there is one thing that will keep Hildy on the job it is the lure of the big scoop. And when a man on death-row escapes and bumps into Hildy the big scoop is hers for the taking.

Even though this movie was released in 1940, it still has an interesting story, and the badinage between Grant and Russell makes the entire movie come alive. This is one of my favorite old-time movies, and it is easy to see how it made it onto the American Film Institute's list of top 100 comedy movies, 100 Years... 100 Laughs. If you like great badinage, then this movie is for you. I give it my highest recommendations!