The Criterion Collection
His Girl Friday
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Featuring: Adolphie Menjou, Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brien, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall
Year: 1931 | 1940
Time: 101 | 92 min.
Series: The Criterion Collection
Edition #: 849
Release Date: January 10 2017
MSRP:
$49.95
Blu-ray
2 Discs | BD-50
1.33:1 ratio
English 1.0 PCM Mono
Subtitles: English
Region A
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
