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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.
- (15K)
- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- Billy Wilder
- 1974-12-20
The Front Page is a 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.
A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.
- 105 min
- 552
- Konstantin Cherganov
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.
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.
- (3.5K)
- Comedy, Crime, Drama
- Lewis Milestone
- 1931-04-04
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.
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Successful Chicago newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon) is hanging up his journalist's hat to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon). When his editor, the arrogant, self-important Walter ...
- (31)
- Comedy, Drama
- PG
