The Front Page (1974)

Directors

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, Carol Burnett

The story

In 1920s Chicago, Chicago Examiner reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson has just quit his job to marry Peggy Grant and start a new career as convict Earl Williams is set to be executed. Ruthless, egomaniacal managing editor Walter Burns, desperate to keep Hildy on the job, encourages him to cover the story, frustrating Peggy, who is eager to catch their train. Earl is an impoverished, bumbling leftist whose offense was stuffing fortune cookies with messages, demanding the release from death row of equally overblown murder convicts Sacco and Vanzetti.

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