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The Front Page

It's the hottest story since the Chicago fire...and they're sitting on it.

  • Movie
  • 1974
  • PG
  • 1h 45m

Directed by Billy Wilder

7.3

TMDB audience rating
7.3 out of 10 from 403 votes

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Overview

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.

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Cast and crew

  • Jack Lemmon

    Jack LemmonHildebrand Johnson

  • Walter Matthau

    Walter MatthauWalter Burns

  • Susan Sarandon

    Susan SarandonPeggy Grant

  • Vincent Gardenia

    Vincent GardeniaSheriff

  • David Wayne

    David WayneRoy Bensinger

  • Allen Garfield

    Allen GarfieldKruger

  • Austin Pendleton

    Austin PendletonEarl Williams

  • Charles Durning

    Charles DurningMurphy

  • Herb Edelman

    Herb EdelmanSchwartz

  • Martin Gabel

    Martin GabelDr. Max J. Eggelhofer

  • Harold Gould

    Harold GouldMayor

  • Cliff Osmond

    Cliff OsmondOfficer Jacobi

  • Dick O'Neill

    Dick O'NeillMcHugh

  • Jon KorkesRudy Keppler

  • Carol Burnett

    Carol BurnettMollie Malloy

  • Paul Benedict

    Paul BenedictPlunkett

  • Allen Jenkins

    Allen JenkinsTelegrapher

  • Barbara DavisMyrtle

Director
Billy Wilder
Writer
Billy Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond
Cinematography
Jordan Cronenweth