1974 1h 45m Billy Wilder

The Front Page

Name: The Front Page
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Released: 1974
Rating: 7.3
Cast: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia

★ 7.3 IMDb

Comedy Romance Drama

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.

Writers I. A. L. Diamond, Charles MacArthur, Ben Hecht, Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia

DP Jordan Cronenweth

Production Designer Henry Bumstead

Music Billy May

Essays and Criticism

On Billy Wilder

Wilder the Humanist: New Perspectives on a Hollywood Legend by Kevin Lally, Cineaste A Foreign Affair: Billy Wilder’s American Films by D.B. Jones, Screening the Past

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