Watch free: full movie His Girl Friday 1940

A star newspaper reporter drops by to tell her editor and ex-husband that she's quitting to marry a mild insurance man. He has other ideas, and a death-row story breaking across the street gives him the perfect excuse to drag her back in. Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell talk over each other at a speed that still feels modern, and Howard Hawks keeps the whole thing moving like a screwball machine. It's routinely named one of the funniest films Hollywood ever made. It was adapted from the 1928 play The Front Page, which is itself now in the public domain.

Watch it if you like fast, witty romantic comedies, or you've never seen a true screwball classic.