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In a 1983 article in Our Socialism magazine, June Loeffler not only assumed the movie was based on the book but made the pair the prime example of her essay denouncing the film industry’s penchant for homogenizing its subjects:

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Touch of Evil is featured in 1958 within the context of "A Year in Film" or "Movies of the Year" retrospectives, including those often highlighted by Canadian broadcaster Hollywood Suite.

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His Girl Friday is a movie intentioned for speed: it set the record on fastest words spoken per minute in a movie.

His Girl Friday (1940) - IMDb, retrieved October 22, 2021

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Story:
The title His Girl Friday is an ironic title, because a girl "Friday" represents a servant of a master, but Hildy is not a servant in the film, but rather the equal to Walter. The world in this film is not determined by gender, but rather by intelligence and capability. At the beginning of the film, Hildy says that she wants to be "treated like a woman", but her return to her profession reveals her true desire to live a different life.
Grindon 2011, p. 105.

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Contemporary reviews from critics were very positive. Critics were particularly impressed by the gender change of the reporter.

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Release of the film was rushed by Cohn and a sneak preview of the film was held in December, with a press screening on January 3, 1940.

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Hawks encouraged aggressiveness and unexpectedness in the acting, breaking the fourth wall a few times in the film. At one point, Grant broke character because of something unscripted that Russell did and looked directly at the camera, saying "Is she going to do that?" Hawks decided to leave this scene in, although it does not appear in the final cut.
McCarthy 1997, p. 284.

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Development and writing:
While producing Only Angels Have Wings (1939), Howard Hawks tried to pitch a remake of The Front Page to Harry Cohn of Columbia Pictures. Cary Grant was almost immediately cast in the film, but Cohn initially intended Grant to play the reporter, with radio commentator Walter Winchell as the editor. Hawks's production that became His Girl Friday was originally intended to be a straightforward adaptation of The Front Page, with both the editor and reporter being male.

During auditions, Howard Hawks's secretary, a woman, read reporter Hildy Johnson's lines. Hawks liked the way the dialogue sounded coming from a woman, resulting in the script being rewritten to make Hildy female and the ex-wife of editor Walter Burns played by Cary Grant.

Cohn purchased the rights for The Front Page in January 1939.

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Filming:

Principal photography began on March 12, 2024, at Babelsberg Studio in Germany, and wrapped on June 3 of the same year.
The film was shot using Arricams and an Arriflex 235 with Kodak film stock. Color correction was done by Company3 UK.
Anderson, who avoids the usage of chroma key, used an LED screen for the cloud footage outside the plane.

French cinematographer Bruno Delbonnel shot on 35 mm film, marking his first feature-length collaboration with Anderson.
This was the first live-action film to not be shot by his regular cinematographer Robert Yeoman.
The film used the unusual 1.5:1 aspect ratio.

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On January 14, 2019, Tom Cruise announced that the seventh and eighth Mission: Impossible films would be shot back-to-back with Christopher McQuarrie writing and directing both films for July 23, 2021, and August 5, 2022, releases. However, in February 2021, Deadline Hollywood revealed that Paramount had decided to no longer move forward with that plan.

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