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Movie
The Front Page
Synopsis
This third film version of the 1928 Ben Hecht/Charlie MacArthur Broadway hit +The Front Page was the first one permitted to utilize all the salty profanities in the original play. Director Billy Wilder cast his two favorite leading men, Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, as ace reporter Hildy Johnson and ruthless newspaper editor Walter Burns, respectively. The plot of the Hecht/MacArthur play remains intact: Burns pulls every underhanded game in the book to prevent Johnson from leaving his Chicago paper to get married, and in so doing the two journalists uncover a cesspool of political corruption, centered around the planned execution of anarchist Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton). Carol Burnett has an extended cameo as Williams' tart girlfriend, Mollie Malloy. The Front Page was remade for a fourth time in 1988 as Switching Channels.
Cast
- Jack Lemmon
- Walter Matthau
- Susan Sarandon
- Carol Burnett
- Vincent Gardenia
- David Wayne
- Allen Garfield
- Austin Pendleton
- Charles Durning
- Herb Edelman
- Martin Gabel
- Harold Gould
- Cliff Osmond
- Dick O'Neill
- Jon Korkes
- Lou Frizzell
- Paul Benedict
- Doro Merande
- Noam Pitlik
- Joshua Shelley
- Allen Jenkins
- John Furlong
- Biff Elliot
- Barbara Davis
- Leonard Bremen
- Ralph E. Winters
- Burton Miller
- Henry Bumstead
- Ralph Winters
- Jordan S. Cronenweth
- Jesse Wayne
- I.A.L. Diamond
- Jennings Lang
- Billy Wilder