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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.
Synopsis. The singular setting for The Front Page is the press room at the Chicago Criminal Courts Building in 1928. The room is particularly abuzz with anticipation of the imminent execution of Earl Wilson, a white man and alleged Communist convicted of murdering a black police officer.
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5w, 17m. Details. Summary. An irresistible comedy with thrills and derring do set in the news room. Hildy wants to break away from journalism and go on a belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy's hands falls the escapee as hostage. He conceals his prize in a rolltop desk and phones his scoop to his managing editor.
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Written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, The Front Page is a play that is considered responsible for defining the modern stereotype of a reporter as a hard-drinking, hard-boiled journalist intent on uncovering truth even in the face of danger.
Oct 21, 2016 · Set in the wild and woolly Chicago of the 1920s, when men were men and newspaper men were animals, “The Front Page” is just about everybody’s favorite play about journalism.
Oct 15, 2016 · In the classic stage comedy “The Front Page” — the best play about newspapering ever written — Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur found in the gaggle of rascally newshounds in 1928 Chicago a...
