Container of (work) : His girl Friday (Motin picture) Container of (work) : Front page (Motion picture : 1931)
Notes:
Both films are based on the play, The Front Page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: New 4K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931); New interview with film scholar David Bordwell; archival interviews with Howard Hawks; featurettes from 1999; radio adaptation from 1940; new piece about the restoration of The Front Page; new piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht; radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946; trailers; booklet. His girl Friday: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart. The front page: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter L. Catlett.
Contents:
Disc 1. His girl Friday (1940, 92 min.) / Columbia Pictures presents ; director, Howard Hawks ; screenplay Charles Lederer ; producer Jed Harris -- Disc 2. The front page (1931, 101 min.) / director, Lewis Milestone ; producer, Howard Hughes ; screenplay, Bartlett Cormack ; dialogue, Charles Lederer.
Summary:
Hildy Johnson is a reporter. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers 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.
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