Howard Hawks’s 1940 screwball classic His Girl Friday arrives in a 4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition from The Criterion Collection, sourced from a new 4K digital restoration with an uncompressed monaural soundtrack. The UHD is presented in Dolby Vision HDR, and Criterion also includes a restoration of Lewis Milestone’s 1931 The Front Page.
Film Info
Country: United States
Year: 1940
Runtime: 92 minutes
Black and White | 1.37:1 | English
Spine: #849
Special Features
4K UHD + Blu-ray special edition features:
- New 4K restoration of His Girl Friday with uncompressed mono audio
- One 4K UHD disc in Dolby Vision HDR and two Blu-rays with the feature, The Front Page, and supplements
- 4K restoration of The Front Page from a recently discovered print of Milestone’s preferred version, with uncompressed mono
- Interview with film scholar David Bordwell
- Archival interviews with Howard Hawks
- Featurettes from 1999 and 2006 on Hawks and Rosalind Russell
- 1940 radio adaptation of His Girl Friday
- Program on the restoration of The Front Page
- Program on playwright-screenwriter Ben Hecht
- Radio adaptations of The Front Page from 1937 and 1946
- Trailers; English SDH subtitles
- Plus: essays by Farran Smith Nehme and Michael Sragow; cover by Randy Glass
Release Date
The Criterion edition of His Girl Friday releases on December 2, 2025 and can be pre-ordered here.
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