The read
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do. Scores higher than 96% of the 246 1940s comedy movies in this catalog.
Synopsis
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
Ratings
IMDb7.8/10
Rotten Tomatoes99%
Metacritic94/100
Critics rate it 16 points higher than audiences do.
972 audience votes
Key crew
- Howard HawksDirector
- Charles LedererScreenplay
- Ben HechtScreenplay
- Sidney CutnerOriginal Music Composer
- Felix MillsOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Cary GrantWalter Burns
- Rosalind RussellHildy Johnson
- Ralph BellamyBruce Baldwin
- Gene LockhartSheriff Hartwell
- Porter HallMurphy
- Ernest TruexBensinger
- Cliff EdwardsEndicott
- Clarence KolbMayor
- Roscoe KarnsMcCue
- Frank JenksWilson
- Regis ToomeySanders
- Abner BibermanLouie
Stills
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Themes
prisonjournalistsuicidejournalismbased on play or musicalwagerfugitiveblack and whitescrewball comedycorrupt politiciannewspaper editorinsurance agent
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