PG1h 45m1974
The Front Page
“It's the hottest story since the Chicago fire...and they're sitting on it.”
Comedy
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Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Writers
- Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, I. A. L. Diamond
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
- Release date
- 1 November 1974
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Box office
- $15,000,000
Ensemble
Cast
Jack Lemmon
Hildebrand Johnson
Walter Matthau
Walter Burns
Susan Sarandon
Peggy Grant
Vincent Gardenia
Sheriff
David Wayne
Roy Bensinger
Allen Garfield
Kruger
Austin Pendleton
Earl Williams
Charles Durning
Murphy
Herb Edelman
Schwartz
Martin Gabel
Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer
Harold Gould
Mayor
Cliff Osmond
Officer Jacobi
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