Tuesday with Cary Grant
His Girl Friday
A matter of life and death permeates His Girl Friday, 1940’s classic 92-minute comedy starring Cary Grant as a ruthless newspaper editor. Something’s off as director Howard Hawks pads the film’s implicit point impugning the death penalty with fast-talking comedy. Like Ninotchka, it subverts lightness to darkness. Conversely, when it counts, it subverts …
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