His Girl Friday (USA) | (91 min; 1940; b/w; English)

Director: Howard Hawks

With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russel, Ralph Bellamy

Recipient of the National Film Registry, National Film Preservation Board, USA 1983; OFTA Film Hall of Fame, Online Film & Television Association 2012

Considered a gem of Hollywood's golden age, Walter, a hard-boiled newspaper editor, discovers that his ex-wife and former employee, Hildy, is set to marry a wet-blanket insurance salesman. Walter, certain that this is the wrong move for a strong-willed and ambitious woman such as Hildy, decides to sabotage her marital plans by enticing her with one last story--the execution of a convicted murderer.