1940 · comedy · romance
His Girl Friday
Directed by Howard Hawks1h 32m1940
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Our read: His Girl Friday (1940) reads as a cosy, breathless, grounded comedy · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, gentle comedy / romance, grounded in texture. Redemptive, intimate, measured.
- cosy
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
- funny
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