The Front Page
1974 · Movie · 105 min. · United States
Chicago, 1929. Hildy Johnson, a reporter of a Chicago newspaper, wants to quit and get married, but the editor of the newspaper, Walter Burns, asks her to stay and write the story of Earl Williams, a murderer convicted to the gallows.
Direction Billy Wilder
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
Soundtrack Billy May
Screenplay Billy Wilder · I.A.L. Diamond · Ben Hecht · Charles MacArthur
Cinematography Jordan Cronenweth
Original title The Front Page
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