His Girl Friday

His Girl Friday1940

Director: Howard Hawks
Stars: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: Unrated
Runtime: 92 minutes

The Front Page, Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's classic 1928 newspaper play, has had three official film versions and contributed structural DNA to half the movies ever made about professional camaraderie and fierce love-hate friendships. Lewis Mi… more »



Hildy:
I have to do a yarn on Williams. Did he know what he was doing when he fired that gun?

Murphy:
If you ask us, 'No.' If you ask the state alienist, the answer is 'Yes.'

Hildy:
Who is he? What's he do?

Jake McCue:
He was a bookkeeper. He starts out at twenty dollars a week and after fourteen years, he gradually works himself up to seventeen fifty...Plus the company goes out of business and Williams loses his job...

Ernie:
So he starts hangin' around the park, listenin' to a lot of soapbox spellbinders makin' phony speeches and begins to believe 'em.

Endicott:
And makes some of his own.

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