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His Girl Friday 92 minutes, United States (1939), U
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This is the perhaps the greatest screwball comedy of them all. Directed by Howard Hawks and starring Cary Grant (with some extremely talented backup) its relentlessly fast and unremittingly funny dialogue has to be seen to be believed

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His Girl Friday: This Hawks' inspired variation on Ben Hecht's and Charles MacArthur's The Front Page is a miracle of comic timing and fizzing chemistry.

Grant plays a hard-nosed newspaper editor desperate to prevent star reporter (and ex-wife) Russell from resigning her post and settling down with gormless Bellamy...
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