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Monday, March 12, 2012

His Girl Friday (1940)


An American comedy by Howard Hawks, starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.
A newspaperman's ex-wife comes by the office to tell him that she is marrying another man and moving away. He talks his way into lunch with them and then talks the ex-wife into working on one last story for the newspaper. From there, everything happens so fast it isn't worth outlining here.
This was like a Dragonforce solo in black and white. The events happen fast and the characters talk fast. There wasn't a second of silence or a moment of rest in the whole thing. It's unique and I like it, so I'm rating it good. Whoever let the copyright run out on this should regret it, but I thank them now.