leethomas-11621 Hectic-paced comedy classic. Russell and Grant are fantastic. Dialogue travels at 100 miles a minute! And it manages to take pot-shots at tabloid journalism and corrupt cops and politicians with the romance taking the backseat to the goings-on. Twice ironical reference is made to real names - Grant describes Russell's fiancé Bruce as looking like Ralph Bellamy and later he refers to Archie Leech, Grant's real name of course. All good fun and the miracle is that the pace keeps at bay the nasty reality of the crime and all that ensues. Is this movie almost without any score? I only noticed music at the end. It was as if it would only have been a distraction otherwise! The dialogue took up every second of the soundtrack! (viewed 11/16)

aghauptman I watched this film and overall I enjoyed it. I love good, quick, sarcastic banter. This movie has a lot of it. Subtle barbs between characters and under the breath remarks. That's more amusing to me than physical comedy. Rosalind Russell is phenomenal in this film as Hildy. Cary Grant did a good playing the character Walter - Walter himself was pretty unappealing. He was manipulative, inconsiderate and narcissistic. I had a really hard time rooting for them to get back together. I am not even sure if you're supposed to be happy for them? Overall I enjoyed the other story arch happening in the film much more than their reconciliation. The supporting cast is full of enjoyable characters that definitely lend to coloring the settings of the film. For really only having a few different locales/room the movie doesn't seem boring or claustrophobic. It's a very well made movie.

cmaddison-169-227837 OMG!! I've just watched this movie and I have a headache!! Grant has always had verbose conversations in his movies but this one takes the cake. I had to stop it half way through in order to relax a bit. And it gets worse as you get further into the movie. My shoulders were up by my ears and my neck was tight. The dialogue was so packed all I can think is that they would have only been able to shoot 10 minutes of usable film a week with this one. They would have been exhausted otherwise.

m-krajeski His Girl Friday is a witty, fast talking, story that takes an original route. Two characters with a shared past, experience the limits of their professions as well as their love. Sometimes it only takes a life experience to make you realize what was meant to be. Cary Grant, and Rosalind Russel do an great job personifying their characters, making the film feel authentic and their characters Walter and Hildy, convincing and endearing. Although the plot isn't the strongest, nor the most engaging to the audience, the protagonists as well as the supporting cast carry the movie to the level of notoriety it holds today.