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His Girl Friday

3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (108 customer reviews)
A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
  • Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
  • Directed by: Howard Hawks
  • Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
  • Release year: 1940
  • Studio: Reel Enterprises
 
  
 
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Synopsis: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter ex-wife from remarrying.
Starring: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell
Supporting actors: Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Frank Jenks, Regis Toomey, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, Helen Mack, John Qualen, Alma Kruger, Billy Gilbert, Pat West, Edwin Maxwell, Irving Bacon, Wade Boteler, Harry C. Bradley
Directed by: Howard Hawks
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Runtime: 1 hour 37 minutes
Release year: 1940
Studio: Reel Enterprises
ASIN: B0012KSZ18 (Rental) and B000HPJITC (Purchase)
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Theatrical Release Information
  • US Theatrical Release Date: January 18, 1940
  • Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corporation
  • Filming Locations: Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
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218 of 229 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.

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64 of 66 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars Unbearable Image and Sound Quality, January 6, 2000
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.

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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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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.
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