I may have seen it a half a dozen times and own it on Blu-ray, but somehow knowing that I’m seconds away from its dizzy verbal ping-ponging is oddly comforting while I’m using the internet to more humdrum ends. The picture quality may be variable – though often no worse than some of the cheap, unrestored DVD transfers available as alternatives – but when the films are easily, legally accessed and free, it’s not hard to understand why some deem it worth a bit of murk.Īt any resolution, there can hardly be a better video on all of YouTube than the full version of Howard Hawks’s delicious, hyper-verbal 1940 screwball comedy His Girl Friday. Many a young, broke or at-wit’s-end cinephile without access to specialist subscription streaming services or swanky Blu-ray reissues has turned to the world’s biggest video-sharing website to find vintage films, both classic and obscure.
It’s a more viable option than some of you might think.
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