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The Front Page

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

1974 · PG · 1h 45m

Directed by Billy Wilder

7.3

TMDB audience score
403 votes, out of 10

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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

  • Jack Lemmon
    Hildebrand Johnson

  • Walter Matthau
    Walter Burns

  • Susan Sarandon
    Peggy Grant

  • Vincent Gardenia
    Sheriff

  • David Wayne
    Roy Bensinger

  • Allen Garfield
    Kruger

  • Austin Pendleton
    Earl Williams

  • Charles Durning
    Murphy

  • Herb Edelman
    Schwartz

  • Martin Gabel
    Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer

  • Harold Gould
    Mayor

  • Cliff Osmond
    Officer Jacobi

  • Dick O'Neill
    McHugh

  • Jon Korkes
    Rudy Keppler

  • Carol Burnett
    Mollie Malloy

  • Paul Benedict
    Plunkett

  • Allen Jenkins
    Telegrapher

  • Barbara Davis
    Myrtle