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The Front Page (1974)
Directed by Billy Wilder
“It's the hottest story since the Chicago fire...and they're sitting on it.”
Comedy · 1h 45m
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.
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
Crew
- Director
- Billy Wilder
- Screenplay
- I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
- Director of Photography
- Jordan Cronenweth
- Editor
- Ralph E. Winters
- Producer
- Paul Monash
Details
- Release date
- 1974-11-01
- Runtime
- 1h 45m
- Genres
- Comedy
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Universal Pictures
- Budget
- $4,000,000
- Box office
- $15,000,000