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The Front Page

ORIGINAL TITLE

The Front Page

YEAR

1974

RUNNING TIME

105 min.

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COUNTRY

(New) Visual section

DIRECTOR

Billy Wilder

SCREENWRITER

Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond (Play: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur)

COMPOSER

Billy May

CINEMATOGRAPHER

Jordan Cronenweth

CAST

Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne, Allen Garfield, Austin Pendleton, Charles Durning, Herb Edelman, Martin Gabel, Harold Gould, Cliff Osmond, Dick O'Neill, Jon Korkes, Lou Frizzell, Paul Benedict, Doro Merande, Noam Pitlik, Joshua Shelley, Allen Jenkins, John Furlong, Biff Elliot, Barbara Davis, Leonard Bremen, Carol Burnett

STUDIO/PRODUCER

Universal Pictures

GENRE

Comedy | Satire. Journalism. The 20s. Remake

SYNOPSIS/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.

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