The Front Page (1974 film)

Infobox Film
name = The Front Page


caption = The theatrical poster.
director = Billy Wilder
producer = Paul Monash
writer = Ben Hecht Charles MacArthur Billy Wilder I. A. L. Diamond
narrator =
starring = Jack Lemmon Walter Matthau
music =
cinematography = Jordan Cronenweth
editing = Ralph E. Winters
distributor = Universal Pictures
released = flagicon|United States December 17, 1974
runtime = 105 min.
country = US
language = English
budget =
preceded_by =
followed_by =
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amg_id = 1:18777
imdb_id = 0071524

:"For other films based on the Broadway play, see The Front Page."

"The Front Page" is a 1974 comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a reporter and editor at a 1920s Chicago newspaper. The film is the third adaptation of the 1928 Broadway comedy play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Other feature films based on the play are "The Front Page" (1931), "His Girl Friday" (1940) and "Switching Channels" (1988).

Plot

It is the night a convicted murderer, Earl Williams, is to be hanged, and reporters in the press room of Chicago's Criminal Courts Building, overlooking the gallows behind the Cook County Jail, are getting ready to witness the event. Hildy Johnson, a star reporter for the "Examiner", shows up late, and then only to say good-bye to his colleagues. He is going to leave to get married to his girlfriend, Peggy Grant, and to get a more respectable job. His editor, Walter Burns, doesn't want to see Hildy leave the paper, so he schemes ways to use the situation to his advantage and keep Hildy on.

Cast

* Jack Lemmon as Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson
* Walter Matthau as Walter Burns
* Susan Sarandon as Peggy Grant
* Vincent Gardenia as "Honest Pete" Hartman
* David Wayne as Roy Bensinger of the Tribune
* Allen Garfield as Kruger
* Austin Pendleton as Earl Williams
* Carol Burnett as Molly Malloy
* Charles Durning as Murphy
* Herb Edelman as Schwartz
* Martin Gabel as Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer
* Harold Gould as The Mayor/Herbie/Green Hornet
* John Furlong as Duffy
* Jon Korkes as Rudy Keppler
* Cliff Osmond as Officer Jacobi

Awards

The film was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture (Musical or Comedy), but lost to "The Longest Yard".

ee also

* "The Front Page"
* Bob Rothberg

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