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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 ...
Dec 20, 1974 · A classic screwball comedy directed by Billy Wilder, starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a reporter and an editor trying to scoop a story before a deadline. The film is based on a play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, and features Susan Sarandon as a reporter who wants to marry the main character.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Billy Wilder
- 1974-12-20
Dec 8, 2023 · 1974. A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.
- 105 min
The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code screwball black comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.
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.
The Front Page: Directed by Lewis Milestone. With Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton. A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.