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The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code screwball black comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien.
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The Front Page, American screwball comedy, released in 1931, that is still widely regarded as one of Hollywood’s most accomplished farces.
The film centres on star newspaper reporter Hildy Johnson (played by Pat O’Brien), who is quitting his job in Chicago to move to New York City with his fiancée Peggy (Mary Brian), despite the insistent protests of his editor, Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou). When Hildy shows up at the city courthouse after his last day of work, however, he becomes caught up in the hubbub surrounding the escape of a convicted murderer (George E. Stone) who is scheduled for execution that night. As Hildy ponders the situation in the press room, the criminal enters through the window, and Hildy, with later help from Walter, hides him in a rolltop desk in order to get an exclusive interview. After the ruse is eventually discovered, Hildy and Walter are arrested, and a furious Peggy breaks off the engagement. In the end, however, the newsmen are released, and Hildy and Peggy—reconciled—leave Chicago on a train.
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•Studio: United Artists
•Director: Lewis Milestone
•Producers: Lewis Milestone and Howard Hughes
•Writer: Bartlett Cormack
•Adolphe Menjou (Walter Burns)
•Pat O’Brien (Hildebrand [“Hildy”] Johnson)
•Mary Brian (Peggy Grant)
•Edward Everett Horton (Roy V. Bensinger)
•Walter Catlett (Jimmy Murphy)
•George E. Stone (Earl Williams)
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"The Front Page" is a 1931 American pre-Code screwball black comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone, featuring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien in the lead ro...
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- The Classical Hollywood Cinema
Raucous, irreverent, and remarkably funny, THE FRONT PAGE is a landmark in cinema history a brilliantly orchestrated, high-speed satire that set the standard for the countless screwball comedies that followed in its wake.
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