BackgroundHis Girl Friday(1940) is Howard Hawks' speedy and hysterically funny, modern-style screwball comedy, and one of the best examples of its kind in film history.(He chuckles)During Raymond's 'hospitalization,' a team of Communist echnical experts and specialists will test and "check the mechanism" of Shaw's brain-washing and "linkages" so that they are "functioning correctly before he's turned over to his American operators.With a one-way ticket out of town to San Francisco on a train, Clara overheard that "Doc" was distraught over breaking up with her, so she exited the train and went looking for him.The film actually brought together director Elia Kazan, scriptwriter Tennessee Williams, and actor Karl Malden from his previous filmA Streetcar Named Desire (1951).