(Flash Review)
His Girl Friday (1940) is the one to see as Cary Grant really helps! Same plot and similar script. Both films have lightning fast dialog, which works great in His Girl Friday. Both films have an escaped convict hiding in a newspaper journalist's office area. Only a couple people know he is there and hide him so they can get the scoop and the money for the story. His Girl Friday has a subplot of a husband a wife managing their rocky relationship which is done cleverly. The Front Page doesn't match up and the dialog, for me, was harder to catch the lingo, didn't have the panache of Grant and feels more confusing and harder to follow. I actually turned it off! So don't see it. I only saw it to see what His Girl Friday was based off of. Do see His Girl Friday!!
His Girl Friday (1940) is the one to see as Cary Grant really helps! Same plot and similar script. Both films have lightning fast dialog, which works great in His Girl Friday. Both films have an escaped convict hiding in a newspaper journalist's office area. Only a couple people know he is there and hide him so they can get the scoop and the money for the story. His Girl Friday has a subplot of a husband a wife managing their rocky relationship which is done cleverly. The Front Page doesn't match up and the dialog, for me, was harder to catch the lingo, didn't have the panache of Grant and feels more confusing and harder to follow. I actually turned it off! So don't see it. I only saw it to see what His Girl Friday was based off of. Do see His Girl Friday!!