His Girl Friday is one of the classic examples of screwball comedy, but when I watched it I was expecting it to be…funnier. And that’s not to say it’s not funny: it is. I just was expecting more zany antics, but all that’s kept fairly low-key. And that allows the script to really crackle, and the actors to do some great work. Cary Grant & Rosalind Russell are excellent in the lead roles, but the supporting cast is great too. Fun and funny – but not too funny.

Great comedy but very fast-paced and it’s dialogue-driven so if you don’t watch the subtitles you’re liable to miss quite a few of the jokes. Grant is likable despite playing a completely despicable turn-on-his-own-mother-for-a-story newspaper editor and Russell is the crack reporter trying to leave the biz for the stability of hearth and home but finding it impossible to fight her own nature.

Highly recommend this one…

what I like so much about this movie is the fact that it is quick, fast and you have to keep up with what’s going on; Cary Grant is a self serving,ruthless newspaperman trying to get the story out about a man who about to be executed but somehow he escapes right into Cary Grant’s office; Rosalind Russell, in true fashion, is a reporter(and ex wife to Cary) who is about to do this one last story about it as a favor to Cary Grant, who also puts her fiance(Ralph Bellamy)out of the way by having him arrested and gets him in trouble to keep him out of the way. very fast paced action packed picture.