His Girl Friday (Criterion Collection)

Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. A hard-nosed journalist is about to give up the pen and paper to marry a buffoon, but her ex-husband has other plans: he intends to lure her back to press with a story of an escaped anarchist—that he’s sheltering himself! Includes restored audio and image, interviews with the director and film scholar David Bordwell, 1999 featurettes about Hawks, Russell and the film, radio adaptation of the film, pieces on restoring The Front Page, trailers and essay by critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow on 2 DVDs. Directed by Howard Hawks. 1940/b&w/92 min/NR/fullscreen.