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The Front Page is a 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. [3]
Dec 20, 1974 · The Front Page: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia. A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.
The Front Page (1974) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Successful Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) is hanging up his journalist's hat to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon). When his editor, the arrogant, self-important Walter ...
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Every newspaper has a reporter camped at the jail, providing snippets in the build-up but Walter Burns, Managing Editor of the Chicago Enquirer, has a problem: his star reporter, Hildy Johnson, has just quit to get married and take up an advertising job in Philadelphia.
The Front Page is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat. Written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, it was first produced in 1928 and has been adapted for the cinema several times. The play entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. [1]
Roger Ebert and Billy Wilder in 1974. hungry police reporters, and corrupt politicians, and an escaped murderer who spends half the film concealed in a rolltop desk in the press room.
Apr 1, 2002 · The ruthless managing editor of a Chicago newspaper angrily learns his ace reporter plans to leave the paper to get married. While he trains a replacement, all hell breaks loose and a convicted killer escapes from right under the nose of a bumbling sheriff.
Play Trailer. It's the hottest story since the Chicago fire...and they're sitting on it. Overview. A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit. Billy Wilder. Director, Screenplay. I. A. L. Diamond. Screenplay.
The Front Page is a 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's 1928 play of the same name.
