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The Front Page

1931

Lewis Milestone

Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton ...

6.7

382

Comedy Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape. ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Carson Lund Slant	"'The Front Page' is a fitfully shrewd piece of early sound filmmaking that's had the tough luck of being overshadowed by two superior remakes (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU

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