HIS GIRL FRIDAY | 2005-11-28
I was just watching the 1940 Cary Grant comedy, "My Girl Friday."
The plot revolves around a man who is being railroaded to execution because he shot a cop.
But, as the Grant character says, "He was a COLORED cop. You know how that is. That's a lot of votes." The shooter was white. We see him in the movie.
A reprieve comes through, but the mayor hires the man who brings it to bribe him from letting anybody know about the reprieve. The mayor goes to prison for attempted murder, thanks to Grant and His Girl Friday.
This is a comedy, so this part of it is forgotten.
At one point the mayor says that if the man is not executed it will cost him two hundred thousand votes.
Can you guess WHICH votes?
This was in 1940.