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His Girl Friday

Edition no. 849

His Girl Friday - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2000 DVD ( USA) The Cary Grant Box Set - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006 DVD ( USA) His Girl Friday - The Criterion Collection 2017 Blu-ray ( USA) His Girl Friday - The Criterion Collection 2017 DVD ( USA) CC40 - The Criterion Collection 2024 Blu-ray ( USA) His Girl Friday - The Criterion Collection 2025 4K UHD + Blu-ray ( USA)
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  • Release Date: Tuesday, 10 January 2017
  • Country of Release: USA
  • MSRP: $39.95
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His Girl Friday | The Front Page
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
One of the fastest, funniest, and most quotable films ever made, His Girl Friday stars Rosalind Russell as reporter Hildy Johnson, a standout among cinema’s powerful women. Hildy is matched in force only by her conniving but charismatic editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns (played by the peerless Cary Grant), who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow newswriters 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. When adapting Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s smash hit play The Front Page, director Howard Hawks had the inspired idea of turning star reporter Hildy Johnson into a woman, and the result is an immortal mix of hard-boiled newsroom setting with remarriage comedy. Also presented here is a brand-new restoration of the 1931 The Front Page, the famous pre-Code adaptation of the same material, directed by Lewis Milestone.
  • Year: 1931 | 1940
  • Time: 101 | 92 min.

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Release Information:

Technical Specifications

Format:
DVD
Discs:
DVD-9 (2 Discs)
Total: 2 Discs
Regions:
1 (DVD)
Aspect Ratio:
1.33:1
Audio Options:
English Dolby Digital Mono 1.0
Resolution:
480p/29.97
Subtitles:
English

Supplements

Types of Supplements Included: Feature Film, Interview, Featurette, Radio Program, Restoration Demonstration, Video Essay, Theatrical Trailer, Booklet
  • New 2K restoration of Lewis Milestone’s The Front Page(1931), made from a recently discovered print of the director’s preferred version
  • Archival interviews with director Howard Hawks
  • New interview with film scholar David Bordwell about His Girl Friday
  • Featurettes from 1999 about Hawks, actor Rosalind Russell, and the making of His Girl Friday
  • Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday 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
  • His Girl Friday trailers
  • A booklet featuring essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow

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Release Credits

Producer: Kim Hendrickson
Artwork: Eric Skillman
Artwork: Sarah Habibi
Artwork: Randy Glass

Release Notes on Restoration

The Front Page
The Front Page is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. 0n widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This new digital transfer was created in 4K resolution on an Oxberry wet-gate film scanner from a 35 mm safety print provided by the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, College of Fine Arts’ Department of Film and its Howard Hughes Collection, housed at the Academy Film Archive of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Restoration was undertaken in 2016 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation, with funding provided by the George Lucas Family Foundation, Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed using MTI Film’s DRS NOVA, While grain-management tools were utilized to mute staining defects inherent to the 35mm print. Additional restoration was performed by the Criterion Collection.

The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from the original metal disc stampers used to create the Vitaphone phonographic disc soundtrack. Clicks, thumps, hiss, hum, and crackle were manually removed using Sonic Studio HD and Pro Tools HD.
His Girl Friday
His Girl Friday is presented in its original aspect ratio of 1.33:1. On widescreen televisions, black bars will appear on the left and right of the image to maintain the proper screen format. This high-definition digital transfer was created on a Spirit DataCine film scanner from a new 35 mm fine-grain master positive made from the nitrate original camera negative. Duplicate 35 mm material was used where the original negative was damaged. Thousands of instances of dirt, debris, scratches, splices, and warps were manually removed at Technicolor in Los Angeles and Deluxe in Culver City, California. The original monaural soundtrack was remastered from the nitrate original soundtrack negative at Chace Audio by Deluxe in Burbank, California. Additional audio restoration was done at the Criterion Collection.