The Criterion Collection has release a clip from an archival interview with director Howard Hawks in which he discusses the dialogue in his classic film His Girl Friday, starring Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, and Clarence Kolb.
Earlier this week, His Girl Friday was released on Blu-ray. The release also contains a new 4K restoration of Lewis Milestone's film The Front Page with Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, and Mary Brian. You can see our listing and review of this release here.
Synopsis: One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema's powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow newswriters with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife. When adapting Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's smash hit play The Front Page, director Howard Hawks had the inspired idea of turning star reporter Hildy Johnson into a woman, and the result is an immortal mix of hard-boiled newsroom setting with remarriage comedy.