His Girl Friday 4K (1940)
de Howard Hawks, Lewis Milestone
Criterion - 2 décembre 2025
Titre Original :
Audio : English: LPCM Mono (48kHz, 24-bit)
Sous-titres : English SDH
Durée : 1h32
Format : includes "The Front Page" (1931) on BD / 4K Ultra HD + Blu-ray / import US
Zone : 4K Blu-ray: Region free
2K Blu-ray: Region A
Genre : Romance, Comédie
Synopsis
Walter Burns is a newspaper editor trying to hang on to his star reporter, Hildy Johnson, who is also Walter's ex-wife. Hildy is leaving journalism to go off and marry Bruce, but an escaped convict, hiding behind a desk in the newsroom, is the perfect bait for Walter to lure Hildy back to her job and to him.
Contenu et Bonus
- New 4K digital restoration of His Girl Friday, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- One 4K UHD disc of the film presented in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the film, The Front Page, and the special features
- 4K digital restoration of The Front Page, made from a recently discovered print of director Lewis Milestone’s preferred version, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
- Interview with film scholar David Bordwell
- Archival interviews with His Girl Friday director Howard Hawks
- Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 about Hawks and actor Rosalind Russell
- Radio adaptation of His Girl Friday from 1940
- Program about the restoration of The Front Page
- Program about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht
- Radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
- Trailers
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: Essays on His Girl Friday and The Front Page by film critics Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow