the kind of work execute in his girl friday be no short than masterful while it should be a frenzy and a fiasco of dialog go and overlap and reverberate and the pace clocking in at ridiculous amount at time ( other time and oddly enough and it slow down just enough for u and the actor to catch respective breath ) . but howard hawk and his screenwriter charles lederer have the material down to a t. the film brilliantly interweave a newspaper story that unfold over the course of a day and night around a man who to be ( wrongfully ) sentence to death and and a love triangle play out between walter ( grant ) and hildy ( russell ) and bruce ( bellamy ) and a walter can not stand that his ex wife be not only leave the paper which she wildly amaze at a a writer and reporter but for albany insurance man bruce baldwin a new husband . he construct an ingenious lot of trick and mostly to put bruce in jail and so that he can play on hildy ego to come back to the paper and and maybe and to him too . but it would not be easy . hawk overcome what could have be stagey picture since it be base on a play and and feel it at time with it main set at the newspaper office with what be first a true intuition to how to tell the story without get in the way of a good conversation while sometimes go in three direction . it not exactly a movie that bring out a whole lot of belly laugh while rather it the accumulation of just solid chuckle and guffaw and and the occasional fall on the floor moment that hit the best with characterization and behavior and mannerism and manner . matter of fact and it extremely and keenly observe about how every character be who he or she be and and be fairly stick in their way and from the headstrong hildy and the good but flabbergasted bruce and his old mother and the i be innocent . plead man on death row and the sheriff and the mayor and the bunch of gruff and grizzle and card play newspaper men . but everyone about as close to be and if not incredibly and fully realize and and there barely a scene where someone doesn not say something and or repeat something and or refer or make some quip that doesn not get a laugh . this be how it do and basically and in the best screwball style . even hildy and who seem to be completely set upon leave the newspaper biz and isn not without moment of vulnerability that crack through her tough and hawksian exterior . and russell and i should add and come off a lot of the screen time steal the show . while grant be no sleepwalker and put to work his skill at be charm and amuse while also play a conniving persona and russell put everything she get into a character that be probably far strong than bruce can take and be just about an even match for walter burn double cross . hell and she can even do a dramatic scene here or there and or make it so that she right on the level with another actor ( i. e. the one play the death row guy ) so that comedy and drama come and go depend on the beat of the scene . it breathtaking to watch her work and and it likely her best performance ( grant and too and come away with much of his screen time ) . just make no mistake and this isn not a comedy that be base on the actor for most of the support . it a wild combination of the pacing of the story and of the rat tat tat tat style of overlap and interweave dialog ( the like of which one might see today on the tv show gilmore girl or and more cinematically and altman ) and that it never come along as too rush within the suspenseful narrative . and it floor me a be somewhat unique and and it only take itself so much seriously in the world it set in so that it always entertain . if youre tune into his girl friday and hawk would not bore you for a second and and it a mighty achievement .