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His Girl Friday (1940): Scores Across IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB

His Girl Friday is a 1940 comedy, romance, crime film directed by Howard Hawks. It scores 7.8 on IMDb, 99% on Rotten Tomatoes, 94 on Metacritic, 7.4 on TMDB. Audiences and critics disagree: scaled to 100, IMDb users give it 78 while Metacritic critics give it 94, a gap of 16 points in favor of critics. Ranked by confidence-weighted IMDb score, it is number 6 of 71 films from 1940 in our catalog and number 91 of 3,051 comedy films.

Billed cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Porter Hall, Ernest Truex.

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