• The Front Page


The Front Page
Description: Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau again team with Wilder in the third film version of the Hecht-MacArthur classic comedy. The familiar story finds hard-nosed editor Walter Burns (Matthau) trying every trick in the book to keep his ace reporter Hildy Johnson from leaving the newspaper business to get married. When Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton) an anarchist facing execution, breaks out of prison, Walter has found the perfect hook to keep Johnson in Chicago for a little longer. The escaped convict suddenly pops up in the pressroom and Hildy hides him in a roll top desk until he's able to get a location for an exclusive interview. Despite the pleas of Molly Malloy (Carol Burnett), a prostitute in love with Williams, the newsmen refuse to let him go. As Hildy begins looking into the activities of the Sheriff (Vince Gardenia) and the Mayor (Harold Gould), it seems like they've decided to execute the wrong man. Matthau, Lemmon and Martin Gabel as a lunatic psychiatrist give wonderful performances. Reviews Sight and Sound 03/01/1975 "...Undeniably funny..." Synopsis In perhaps the most honest of the remakes, director Billy Wilder satisfies the 1970s craze for nostalgia in this third filming of the Hecht-MacArthur play about wild and woolly Chicago newspapermen in the 1920s. Sparks fly as Walter Matthau plays a ruthless managing editor who learns that his ace reporter (Jack Lemmon) plans to leave the paper to get married. Itƒ?Ts the day before an innocent man is about to be executed, and the editor hopes his top man wonƒ?Tt be able to resist the story.

Title: The Front Page
Category: Comedies
Actors: Jack Lemmon/ Walter Matthau
Directors: Billy Wilder UPC: 01871381020
Released: 08 20 1998
Original Release: 1974
Studio: GoodTimes Entertainment
Catalog #: 81020
Rating: PG (MPAA)
Format: DVD Color
Runtime: 6300
Region: 1 -- $4.99

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