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OSCAR SNUBS: HIs Girl Friday (1940)
Next up in the Oscar Snubs is the paragon of fast-talking screwball comedies. Except that this movie might be too fast. That's right, when you tell five jokes in 30 seconds, and they're all dated back to the late 30's, at some point you're no longer funny, you're exhausting. It's impeccably executed, but utterly meaningless, and by the end you're just happy to turn the movie off. Lock up your rollaway desks as we discuss His Girl Friday on Have a Good Movie! You can email us with feedback at macintoshandmaud@gmail.com, or you can connect with us on BlueSky! If you like the podcast, please subscribe, rate and review the show on your favorite podcatcher, and tell your friends. Intro and outro music taken from the Second Movement of Ludwig von Beethoven's 9th Symphony. Licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Hong Kong (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 HK) license. To hear the full performance or get more information, visit the song page at the Internet Archive. Excerpt taken from the main titles to the film His Girl Friday, written and composed by Sidney Cutner and Felix Mills. Excerpt taken "Prelude and Outer Space" from the film The Day The Earth Stood Still, written and composed by Bernard Herrmann and conducted by Joel McNeely. © 1951 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, 2003 Varese Sarabande Records, Inc.
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