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459 IMDb 7.3 1 h 44 min 1974. 7+. Comedy · Intense. This video is currently unavailable. to watch in your location. Details. Ruthless newspaper editor Walter Burns (Walter Matthau) and his crack ace reporter Hildy (Jack Lemmon) believe together they can cover any story.
Watch The Front Page with a subscription on Prime Video. Successful Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) is hanging up his journalist's hat to marry Peggy Grant (Susan...
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 ...
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Billy Wilder directs this film version of the 1928 Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur Broadway hit, also featuring Carol Burnett, Austin Pendleton, and Susan Sarandon. It is the eve of one of the most newsworthy events of the year: convicted cop-killer Earl Williams is about to be hanged.
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.
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.
