Comedy · Romance · Crime
American
1940 · Directed by Howard Hawks · 92 min
Walter Burns is a ruthless newspaper editor. His ace reporter, who is also his ex-wife, walks in to say she is quitting journalism and getting married. With a condemned man's story breaking in the city, he sets out to keep her in the newsroom by any means.
Why it matters in cinema history
A landmark of the screwball cycle that closed the 1930s. It shows how sound-era comedy could treat rhythm and conversation as its main spectacle.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a comedy of speed, where who talks fastest, and who interrupts whom, tells you who holds power.
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