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The Front Page (1974)

द फ्रंट पेज

English film

by Billy Wilder 1974G

newspaper reportersChicago 1929Lemmon and MatthauBilly Wilderscrewball comedystage adaptation

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Directed by
Billy Wilder
Produced by
Paul Monash
Written by
Billy Wilder, I. A. L. Diamond (from the play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur)
Music by
Billy May
Cinematography
Jordan Cronenweth
Cast
Jack Lemmon (Hildy Johnson), Walter Matthau (Walter Burns), Susan Sarandon (Peggy Grant), Carol Burnett (Mollie Malloy), Vincent Gardenia (Sheriff Hartman), David Wayne (Bensinger), Austin Pendleton (Earl Williams)

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Hildy Johnson is the best crime reporter in Chicago, and he has finally had enough: he is leaving the paper to marry Peggy and start a respectable life. On his last day, an anarchist awaiting execution escapes from the county jail and practically drops into Hildy's lap, and his ruthless editor Walter Burns will use every trick he knows to keep Hildy on the story. The film is a fast-talking newsroom farce, the third screen version of the celebrated 1928 stage play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. It was Billy Wilder's third pairing of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau after The Fortune Cookie, and features an early role for Susan Sarandon and a fine comic turn by Carol Burnett.

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