“His Girl Friday,” “The Man who Wouldn’t Talk” (Movie Reviews-1/12/40)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 1/12/40 | Frank S. Nugent, B.R.C.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

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[Homer_J_Simpson]

“His Girl Friday” clips

“His Girl Friday” Clip 1

“His Girl Friday” Clip 2

“His Girl Friday” Clip 3

[Homer_J_Simpson]

“His Girl Friday” original trailer

[Shqipo]

His Girl Friday... Great movie. Best watched while heavily caffeinated as to keep up with the rapid-fire dialogue.

[Vendome]

You come up with the coolest stuff.

Do you live in Santa Cruz? All your articles come there.

Post on.

[dawn53]

Isn’t that the truth. The dialogue is so fast and furious in that movie it’s impossible to catch all the quips the first time you watch it.

[Clintons Are White Trash]

Cary Grant....game over :)

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Do you live in Santa Cruz?

Watsonville. South county. Still filled with (and ruled by) statist drones, but with strawberries, also.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Best watched while heavily caffeinated as to keep up with the rapid-fire dialogue.

Isn’t that the truth. The dialogue is so fast and furious in that movie it’s impossible to catch all the quips the first time you watch it.

That is Nugent's main beef with the film:

Hysteria is one of the communicable diseases and "His Girl Friday" is a more pernicious carrier than Typhoid Mary. It takes you by the scruff of the neck in the first reel and it shakes you madly, bellowing hoarsely the while, for the remaining six or seven. Before it's over you don't know whether you have been laughing or having your ears boxed. The veriest bit on the strenuous side, if you follow us.

[Vendome]

I am across Hecker Pass in Gilroy.

[Vendome]

Love that Super Taqueria just before Pajaro.

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I haven’t been there since they put up the giant Obama sign last year. Suddenly their burritos gave me indigestion.

[Vendome]

Guess I missed that last week.

I will look for it next time and if it’s there, I am off the Giant Artichoke for Fried artichoke hearts.

[dawn53]

Another Cary Grant movie that’s fast paced (but not as fast paced as His Girl Friday) is Arsenic and Old Lace, great fun to watch.

[The Wizard]

bttt

[CougarGA7]

Best watched while heavily caffeinated as to keep up with the rapid-fire dialogue.

Butidontdrinkcoffee!!

[Homer_J_Simpson]

I will look for it next time and if it’s there, I am off the Giant Artichoke for Fried artichoke hearts.

I should have said 2008 - not last year. It was an election sign so it is gone now. I just carry a grudge.

[Vendome]

Don’t blame you.

[Mr. Jeeves]

Still filled with (and ruled by) statist drones, but with strawberries, also.

Good point. Watsonville strawberries are so good, they are worth enduring socialist nitwits to ensure a regular supply. :)

[GreenLanternCorps]

“His Girl Friday” is a rare example of something that has been “adapted” being far superior to the original.

Perfect Cast, perfect dialogue, I have to dig my DVD out sometime...