The Front Page

Name: The Front Page
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1974-11-01
Duration: 1 h 45 min
Rating: 7.2
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne

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

The Front Page (1974)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

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$4 000 000

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$15 000 000

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Director

Billy Wilder

Actors

Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne, Allen Garfield, Austin Pendleton, Charles Durning, Herb Edelman, Martin Gabel
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Paul Monash, Jennings Lang

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Jordan Cronenweth

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Ralph E. Winters
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Short description

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.

What's left behind the scenes

The idea proposed by Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow, 1920-2000) to secretly take a picture of a person sentenced to death at the moment of execution had a historical basis. On January 12, 1928, at the Sing Sing prison in New York, Ruth Brown Snyder and her lover Henry Judd Gray ended their lives for the murder of Ruth’s husband, Albert Snyder, a year earlier. Chicago Tribune reporter Tom Howard (1894-1961) used a hidden camera to photograph Snyder at the moment of her death. This photograph became an example of what reporters are capable of and willing to do for exclusive material. The disposable camera used by Howard is now on display at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution.