His girl Friday

Author

Howard Hawks

Call Number

• DVD COMEDY (CEN)

Edition

Full screen version.

Performers

Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall.

Publication Information

Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2000.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

An unscrupulous newspaper editor uses every dirty trick in the book to keep his ace reporter/ex-wife from retiring and remarrying in this twist on The Front Page.

Notes

DVD format.

Videodisc release of the 1939 motion picture.

Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Based on the play The front page by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, as produced by Jed Harris.

Not rated.

Special features include: Digitally mastered audio and video ; English and Spanish audio, with subtitles in English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Chinese, Korean, and Thai ; audio commentary with film critic and author Todd McCarthy ; four exclusive featurettes ; vintage advertising ; theatrical trailers ; talent files ; interactive menus ; production notes ; scene selections.

Presented in a full screen version which preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.33:1.