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    The Front Page

    PG1974 · Comedy drama · 1h 45m

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  1. 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 [3] is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur 's 1928 play of the same name (which inspired several other films, such as 1931's The Front Page , the 1940 comedy, His ...

  2. 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.

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    • Comedy, Drama, Romance
    • Billy Wilder
    • 1974-12-20
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  4. The Front Page (1974) Movie Info Synopsis Successful Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) is hanging up his journalist's hat to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon).

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    • Billy Wilder
    • PG
    • Jack Lemmon
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  5. Synopsis. Chicago, Illinois, 1929. Outside a criminal courts building, police build a scaffold and bleachers for the public hanging of Earl Williams, who has been convicted of killing a policeman. Upstairs, reporters play poker in the press room.

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  7. Tweet. 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. The play has been filmed twice before: In 1930 with Lee Tracy as the reporter and Adolphe Menjou as his managing editor, and again in 1940, when director ...

  8. Apr 1, 2002 · Synopsis. 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. Directors. Billy Wilder.

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