Once in a while you see a movie that's so jaw-droppingly perfect in all departments that just reminiscing about it drives tears of happiness to your eyes. Howard Hawks's black comedy "His Girl Friday" is part of that pantheon.
Never again was a Hollywood mainstream comedy bleaker and more cynical in its characterizations (without resorting to condescension and moralizing), never again was (party overlapping) comedy dialogue so brilliantly written and delivered with such speed, never again was a comedy plot (with tragic overtones) told with such economy and perfect timing, never again were Rosalind Russell and Cary Grant (and the whole bunch of great supporting actors and actresses) funnier and wittier. Never ever will a timeless masterpiece such as this be outclassed.
Sorry, I have to go and watch it again while drying my eyes.
10 out of 10 unscrupulous headlines
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