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Overview

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Director:
Billy Wilder
Writers:
Ben Hecht (play) and
Charles MacArthur (play) ...
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Release Date:
17 December 1974 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
It's the hottest story since the Chicago Fire... And they're sitting on it.
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... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Golden Globes. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination more
NewsDesk:
It's Wilder's 95th
 (From Studio Briefing - Film News. 22 June 2001)

User Comments:
THE POWER OF THE PRESS more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Jack Lemmon ... Hildy Johnson

Walter Matthau ... Walter Burns

Susan Sarandon ... Peggy Grant
Vincent Gardenia ... Sheriff
David Wayne ... Bensinger
Allen Garfield ... Kruger

Austin Pendleton ... Earl Williams
Charles Durning ... Murphy
Herb Edelman ... Schwartz (as Herbert Edelman)

Martin Gabel ... Dr. Eggelhofer

Harold Gould ... The Mayor

Cliff Osmond ... Jacobi

Dick O'Neill ... McHugh
Jon Korkes ... Rudy Keppler
Lou Frizzell ... Endicott
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Additional Details

Runtime:
105 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Technicolor)
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The Front Page opened at the Times Square Theater on August 14, 1929 and ran for 276 performances. more
Goofs:
Continuity: When Peggy decides Hildy doesn't want to leave the newspaper business, she takes her ticket and leaves the press room for the cab. A few minutes later, Bentzinger wants to come in and the door is locked, even thought neither Hildy or Burns locked it after she left. more
Quotes:
Mollie Malloy: I never said that I loved Earl Williams and was willing to marry him on the gallows. You made that up!
Murphy: Oh, come on. You've been sucking around that cuckoo ever since he's been in the death house.
McHugh: Everybody knows you're his soul-mate.
Mollie Malloy: That's a lot of bunk! Like all that other stuff you been writing. Calling me an Angel of the Pavement and the Midnight Madonna. Who ya kiddin'? I'm a two-dollar whore from Division Street and you know it!
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Movie Connections:
References Some Like It Hot (1959) more
Soundtrack:
Button Up Your Overcoat more

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1 out of 1 people found the following comment useful:-
THE POWER OF THE PRESS, 8 October 2000
7/10
Author: kubdrat from chicago

I happened across The Front Page accidently while watching the baseball playoffs. The fact that the movie was able to hold my interest is tribute enough. Jack Lemmon is ready to quit the reporter business in prohibition Chicago... Walter Mattheu is Lemmons' editor and tries anything to keep his best newsman around. Lemmon is hot to leave for Philly with a woman he plans to marry but before Lemmon can get out of Chicago a story is thrown into his lap. The newsman in him takes over and the results of good action and story kept me around. Funny finish.

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