Free Flick of the Day: His Girl Friday
Filed under: Classics, Home Entertainment
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By now, you've had your fill of ghosts, goblins, and things that go bump in the night. You've cleaned up pumpkin guts, peeled off your skin along with your spirit gum prosthetics, hoping OxyClean gets fake blood stains out of your carpet. You need a movie with class, wit, and Cary Grant. You need Howard Hawks' classic His Girl Friday, which is playing right now on SlashControl. There's nothing I can say about this movie that hasn't already been said. Rosalind Russell's Hildegard "Hildy" Johnson remains one of the gutsiest heroines to ever grace the silver screen, and the fact that Cary Grant's Walter Burns loves her for her byline makes him one of the sexiest men of all time. The romance, the scheming, and the race to the presses will still leave you dizzy and laughing. Oh, and let's not forget the clothes. Oh, to spend a day looking as impeccable and sharp as Johnson ... ! I fully intended this to be an anti-Halloween selection, but I imagine it could inspire my fellow females to look for pinstripes and fedoras for next year's festivities.
This movie is especially poignant to watch now in the waning days of the newspaper industry. It's very sad to think of movies like Friday and State of Play being period pieces beyond clothing, hairstyles, and politics. While I have confidence that journalism will find its fast talking feet again, there will always be something romantic about the presses. At least they've been preserved in the background of so many movies as good as His Girl Friday.
Watch His Girl Friday on SlashControl right now!
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10-31-2009 @ 5:28PM
Joseph Finn said...
Oooh, nice! This is actually my favorite comedy of all time (the DVD with commentary by film historian Todd McCarthy is quite good; he tells an interesting story that Russell, concerned about her dialogue, would have it improved by her brother, an ad man at Leo Burnett, and bring it in the next day as her own ideas).
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10-31-2009 @ 8:37PM
Scott Nye said...
Man this is such a great movie. I will also recommend that any interested parties watch it twice. There's so much dialogue packed into every...not even second, every microsecond, that it really does take twice through to start to get it all. The first time I was amused, but casually indifferent. The second time...my favorite Howard Hawks film, and Hawks is my favorite studio era director.
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11-02-2009 @ 9:10AM
ML said...
What fun! This is a good one with lively dialog. Recommended, for sure.
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