The Milton Film Festival is proud to present this classic screwball comedy by film legend Howard Hawks in celebration of the 80th anniversary of its release.
Newspaper editor Walter Burns is about to lose his ace reporter and ex-wife Hildy Johnson, newly engaged to another man. Burns suggests they cover one more story together, getting themselves entangled in the case of condemned murderer Earl Williams as Burns desperately tries to win back his wife. The screenplay was adapted from the play The Front Page, where the character of Hildy was a man.
“This unflappable, unflagging energy makes His Girl Friday one of the snappiest and most purely enjoyable rom-coms ever made. It’s also a swell screwball tribute to the journalism profession, depicted as a job noble and exciting enough to get a woman in 1940 to choose her career over domestic bliss.” – Jesse Hassenger, The AV Club
