Summary
Comedy drama starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Ace Chicago reporter Walter Burns is poised to go to New York to get married and begin a straightforward advertising job, but his hard-nosed editor has other plans.
The Front Page
- Comedy
- Crime/detective
- 1931
- Lewis Milestone
- 102 mins
- PG
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Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur's stage success of 1928 was a natural for a movie adaptation: set mainly in the pressroom of a Chicago court-house, it's a gift for actors. Adolphe Menjou plays the powerful editor, Walter Burns, and Pat O'Brien is his ace reporter, Hildy Johnson. Then condemned prisoner George E Stone gives Hildy a scoop, diverting him from his fiancée. Spraying smart dialogue at the speed of Chicago's machine guns, it carries its age with dignity. Remade - with a sex-change operation (Hildy becomes a woman) - as His Girl Friday in 1940, by Billy Wilder in 1974, and again in Switching Channels in 1988, by this time set in a TV newsroom.
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Cast
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Walter Burns | Adolphe Menjou |
| Hildy Johnson | Pat O'Brien |
| Peggy | Mary Brian |
| Bensinger | Edward Everett Horton |
| Murphy | Walter Catlett |
| Earl Williams | George E Stone |
| Molly | Mae Clarke |
| Pincus | Slim Summerville |
Crew
| role | name |
|---|---|
| Director | Lewis Milestone |
Details
- Theatrical distributor
- United Artists Corp. Ltd
- Languages
- English
- Formats
- Black and white
