Thursday, August 12, 2021
DOORS & WINE OPEN AT 7:30 PM.
THE FILM BEGINS AT 8:00 PM.
Must be 21+
The raciest love battle in years! A wild, witty whirlwind of hysterics..! (Print Ad-Meriden Daily Journal, ((Meriden, Conn.)) 21 February 1940)
Rewrite of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur play "The Front Page" is about a newspaper editor who goes to extraordinary lengths to keep his best reporter (who is also his ex-wife) from remarrying in a desperate attempt to win her back.
Director: Howard Hawks
Runtime: 92 minutes
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Ralph Bellamy
Memorable Quote:
Walter Burns: “You've got an old fashioned idea divorce is something that lasts forever, 'til death do us part.' Why divorce doesn't mean anything nowadays, Hildy, just a few words mumbled over you by a judge.”
Interesting Trivia:
It is estimated that the normal rate of verbal dialogue in most films is around 90 words a minute. In His Girl Friday (1940), the delivery has been clocked at 240 words a minute.
INDIVIDUAL FILMS:
$15 MEMBER / $20 NONMEMBER
SERIES OF 3 FILMS:
$39 MEMBER / $54 NONMEMBER