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Category: 14
All Genres: Comedy, Drama
Release Year: 1974
Country: USA
Runtime: 105
Rating: (0)
Languages: English
Director: Billy Wilder
Sound: Mono
Taglines:

It's the hottest story since the Chicago Fire... And they're sitting on it.

Writing by: Ben Hecht - (play) and
Charles MacArthur - (play)
Billy Wilder - (screenplay) &
I.A.L. Diamond - (screenplay)

Produced by: Jennings Lang - executive producer
Paul Monash - producer

Cast: Jack Lemmon - Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson
Walter Matthau - Walter Burns / Otto Fishbine
Susan Sarandon - Peggy Grant
Vincent Gardenia - Peter B. 'Honest Pete' Hartman Sheriff of Clark County
David Wayne - Roy Bensinger of the Tribune
Allen Garfield - Kruger
Austin Pendleton - Earl Williams
Charles Durning - Murphy
Herb Edelman - Schwartz (as Herbert Edelman)
Martin Gabel - Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer
Harold Gould - The Mayor / Herbie / Green Hornet

Music: Stanley Myers
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Plot Outline: Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married...
Plot: Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story.

Movie Quotes: Walter Burns: The son of a bitch stole my watch.

Crazy Credits: We know about 1 Crazy Credits. One of them reads:
At the End after Images of The Black Six: Honky Look out, Hassle a Brother and the Black Six will Return!!!

Goofs: We know about 4 goofs. Here comes one of them:
Anachronisms: When Hildy enters the press room to say goodbye to his fellow reporters, he greets them with a Cagney imitation, saying "This is a raid, see." James Cagney would not become famous enough to imitate until The Public Enemy (1931) came out two years later.

Trivia: There are 2 entries in the trivia list - like these:
Carol Burnett was extremely unhappy with her performance in this film (as were a lot of critics). The comedienne likes to tell the story of how she was a passenger on an airline that had "The Front Page" as its in-flight movie. At the film's conclusion, Burnett stood up and apologized to the passengers for what they'd just witnessed.
The Front Page opened at the Times Square Theater on August 14, 1929 and ran for 276 performances.