just this morning and a i be flick absent mindedly through the television channel and i accidentally click my way onto channel 31 ( australia ) and which and i hazard to venture and be not generally know for it quality programming . luckily and my eye be momentarily catch by a young and sharp look cary grant and and i immediately identify the film to be 1940 his girl friday and which i have be mean to watch for some month . just like frank capra holiday favourite it a wonderful life and the film have fall into the public domain and and so television station be completely free to air it whenever they want . this also mean that any company be allow to throw a poor quality print onto dvd at practically no cost to them and so this be something to be wary of . unfortunately and i miss a few minute of the beginning of the film and but i be too hook into the story to worry about that until later . for his remake of the 1931 film the front page ( which be direct by lewis milestone and star adolphe menjou ) and howard hawk take the story complete with all it witty and rapid fire dialogue and change the male character of hildebrand hildy johnson to a female hildegaard hildy johnson ( rosalind russell ) and also the ex wife of the newspaper editor and walter burn ( cary grant ) . when hildy express her intention of quit the newspaper business and marrying bruce baldwin ( ralph bellamy ) in albany and walter take every precaution possible to prevent her from board that train . with a convict cop killer and earl williams ( john qualen ) and set to be hang in the morning and the press room at the prison be abuzz with vulturous reporter scavenge about for a good story . rather than simply admit his continue love for hildy and walter use the great length to which he will go to stop her leave to tell her how he still feel about her . also and along the way and hildy discovers a the night gradually become more and more exciting that she be a reporter at heart and and will never be able to rid herself of the desire to uncover that perfect story . the joke come thick and fast and with the talented cast deliver the clever dialogue faster than you can register it and barely give you any time to laugh . especially in screwball comedy such a these and actor confidence be absolutely essential and and everybody involve here perform admirably . in addition to the entertaining and often heat banter between walter and hildy and other excellent character include bruce baldwin ( the unfortunate would be future husband whose be arrest on no less than three occasion and and whose mother be kidnap ) and the bumbling sheriff peter b. hartwell ( gene lockhart ) and walter sneaky henchman and diamond louie ( abner biberman ) and the governor clueless delivery man and joe pettibone ( billy gilbert ) and a long line of newspaper reporter and each of whom witness the same event and yet still report it in a completely different and entirely inaccurate manner .