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His Girl Friday
MEANRANK
83/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #301
- IMDb #608
- Rotten Tomatoes #135
- Letterboxd #548
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #66
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #552
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- Metacritic Critics #91
- Criticker #231
- Kinopoisk #1503
- AlloCiné #1051
- Trakt #1111
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 70, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 99. Critics average 96, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A sharp newspaper editor learns that his best reporter and former wife is about to remarry and leave the business. He concocts a scheme to keep her by assigning her to cover one last big story: a scheduled execution. He manipulates the story and her emotions, pulling her back into the fast-paced world of journalism and their old romantic chemistry.
Details
- Director
- Howard Hawks
- Writers
- Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer, Howard Hawks
- Based on
- The Front Page by Ben Hecht
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
- Released
- 18 January 1940
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Rated
- NR
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Cast
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Awards
5 wins & 1 nomination total
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