His Girl Friday (1940)
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
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Overrated
The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.
This is a dark and sometimes deeply uncomfortable drama
Let me be very fair here, this is not the best movie in my opinion. But, this movie is fun, it has purpose and is very enjoyable to watch.
I watched this film and overall I enjoyed it. I love good, quick, sarcastic banter. This movie has a lot of it. Subtle barbs between characters and under the breath remarks. That's more amusing to me than physical comedy. Rosalind Russell is phenomenal in this film as Hildy. Cary Grant did a good playing the character Walter - Walter himself was pretty unappealing. He was manipulative, inconsiderate and narcissistic. I had a really hard time rooting for them to get back together. I am not even sure if you're supposed to be happy for them? Overall I enjoyed the other story arch happening in the film much more than their reconciliation. The supporting cast is full of enjoyable characters that definitely lend to coloring the settings of the film. For really only having a few different locales/room the movie doesn't seem boring or claustrophobic. It's a very well made movie.
While this film was named a comedy while watching it at first I thought it was rather sad. Hildey is in the middle of divorcing someone that loves her still, a man is about to be sent to death, and nothing truly seems rather happy. but as I was watching I found the characters rather funny, molly very overdramatic hildey rather sarcastic, and the reporters frantic, and dumb. parts of the film are very funny, when theyre running from phone to phone, or out to eat, and the situation is rather awkward, while some are sad, When hildey is talking to the prisoner, and when Molly jumps out the window.
I think "His Girl Friday" is an interesting film with humor but some times bores the audience. The film has good lighting and sound for its time but also isn't anything to write home about. Neither really adds or subtracts from the film. The humor in the movie is good at times and keeps the audience entertained. However there are long segments of the film that are just boring. This may be because humor has changed since the 1940s. The filming is also kind of poor, the camera often has these way too long shots. This film is amusing but I would not consider it a classic.
I found this film to be a wonderful film. It was an easy movie to watch. There were moments of humor, romance, action, and even some suspense. It had just about everything you could want in a movie. On top of that the female lead was strong-willed and was one of the best parts of the film. This would be a great film to watch if your not accustomed to black and white movies due to the range of genre the film has. There is something for everyone to enjoy.