About this title: This first of four film versions of the Ben Hecht/Charlrd MacArthur Broadway hit stars Adolphe Menjou as explosive Chicago newspaper-editor Walter Burns and Pat O'Brien as his star reporter Hildy Johnson. Hildy is on the verge of getting married and retiring from Burns' dirty little tabloid, but he agrees to cover one last story: the politically motivated execution of convicted cop killer Earl Williams (George E. Stone). Thanks to the stupidity of the police, Williams manages to escape, and Johnson hides the wounded fugitive in a rolltop desk in the prison pressroom. Burns enters the scene, ...
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Format: VHS Tape
Studio: Madacy Records
Date: 1997-09-19
UPC:056775603434
Description: New. Mint video with slip case type jacket * as issued, new * all videos are checked for authenticity and are shipped in water tight bubble bags* and are guaranteed for quality and to work properly* buy from professionals. read more
Description: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, George E. Stone, Slim Summerville, Walter Catlett. New in new packaging. 1931 Run time: 101. Media satire wherein a dishonest editor tries to keep his star reporter from leaving the newspaper and getting married, but the two of them stumble onto a huge story when they hide a convicted cop-killer who has escaped from death row. Based on the play "His Girl Friday" by Ben Hecht, and remade under that title in 1940. Produced by Howard ... read more
Description: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, Mae Clarke, George E. Stone. Very good in good packaging. 1931 Run time: 101. read more
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