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Film for Yuletide

His Girl Friday (1940)

Classic Screwball Comedy

Howard Hawks, 1940, USA, 92 minutes, Cert U, black and white

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Sun 18 December 2022 // 19:30 / Cinema

Tickets: Pay As You Can: £7/5/3/0

One of the all time great Hollywood comedies starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.

Newspaper editor Walter Burns is about to lose his ace reporter (and ex-wife) Hildy Johnson, who is engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife.

The film is the second screen adaptation of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's play The Front Page and is noted for its rapid-fire repartee and overlapping dialogue.