| Description |
1 videodiscs (92 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. |
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digital optical mono rda |
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fullscreen |
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NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video rda |
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region 1 rdare |
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Motion picture. |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 849.
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| Note |
Special features: New 4K restoration of Lewis Milestone's The Front Page (1931); New interview with film scholar David Bordwell; archival interviews with Howard Hawks; featurettes from 1999; radio adaptation from 1940; new piece about the restoration of The Front Page; new piece about playwright and screenwriter Ben Hecht; radio adaptations of the play The Front Page from 1937 and 1946; trailers; booklet. |
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Based on the play The front page, by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, as produced by Jed Harris. |
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1940. |
| Contents |
[Disc 1.] His girl Friday -- [Disc 2.] The front page. |
| Credits |
His girl Friday: director of photography, Joseph Walker ; editor, Gene Havlick ; musical director, M.W. Stoloff. |
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The front page: director of photography, Glen MacWilliams ; settings, Richard Day ; editor, W. Duncan Mansfield. |
| Cast |
His girl Friday: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall. |
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The front page: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter L. Catlett, George E. Stone, Mae Clarke, Slim Summerville, Matt Moore, Frank McHugh, Clarence H. Wilson, Freddie Howard, Phil Tead, Gene Strong, Spencer Charters, Maurice Black, Effie Ellsler, Dorothea Wolbert, James Gordon. |
| Summary |
His girl Friday: Hildy Johnson is a reporter who is matched in force only by her conniving-but-charismatic ex-editor and ex-husband, Walter Burns, who dangles the chance for her to scoop her fellow news writers with the story of an impending execution in order to keep her from hopping the train that's supposed to take her to Albany and a new life as a housewife. |
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The front page: A newspaper editor and his ace reporter battle each other while fighting civic corruption in Chicago. |
| Audience |
Not rated |
| System Details |
DVD, NTSC, region 1; full screen (1.33:1 screen ratio); Dolby digital monaural. |
| Language |
English dialogue with optional SDH English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing. |
| Subject |
Journalists -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Man-woman relationships -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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Divorced people -- Drama -- Videodiscs.
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| Genre |
Feature films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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| Added Author |
Lederer, Charles, 1910-1976, screenwriter.
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Cormack, Bartlett, 1898-1942, screenwriter.
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Hawks, Howard, 1896-1977, film director.
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Milestone, Lewis, 1895-1980, film director.
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Grant, Cary, 1904-1986, actor.
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Russell, Rosalind, actor.
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Menjou, Adolphe, 1890-1963, actor.
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O'Brien, Pat, 1899-1983, actor.
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Stoloff, Morris, 1898-1980, musical director.
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Hecht, Ben, 1894-1964.
Front page.
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Columbia Pictures Corporation, production company.
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| ISBN |
9781681432335 |
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1681432331 |
| Standard No. |
715515189613 |
| Music No. |
CC2705D The Criterion Collection |
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CC2705DDVD The Criterion Collection |
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