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Switching Channels is a 1988 American comedy film that is a cable television newsroom-based retelling of newspaper-based 1928 play The Front Page, the 1931 film of the same name and the 1940 film His Girl Friday. It stars Kathleen Turner as Christy Colleran, Burt Reynolds as John L. Sullivan IV, Christopher Reeve as Blaine Bingham, Ned Beatty as Roy Ridnitz, Henry Gibson as Ike Roscoe and George Newbern as…
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Most remakes fail, but in some cases it is easy to see why they were looking like seductively good idea. This is most evident with great films of Classic Hollywood era, which look like they could provide basis for much better modern films made with superior technology and lack of censorship. One such attempt was based by *His Girl Friday*, 1940 classic screwball comedy by Howard Hawks. In 1988 it was remade as *Swit…More
