Yahoo Web Search

Sign In

Search results

  1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Front_Page_(1974_film)The Front Page (1974 film) - Wikipedia

    The Front Page is a 1974 American black comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder, and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. [3] The screenplay by Wilder and I. A. L. Diamond [ 3 ] is based on Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur 's 1928 play of the same name (which inspired several other films, such as 1931's The Front Page , the 1940 comedy ...

  2. Videos

    View all

  3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › The_Front_PageThe Front Page - Wikipedia

    The Front Page is a Broadway comedy about newspaper reporters on the police beat. Written by former Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, it was first produced in 1928 and has been adapted for the cinema several times. The play entered the public domain in the United States in 2024. [1]

  4. www.classicfilmtvcafe.com › 2020 › 03Classic Film and TV Café: Billy Wilder's The Front Page

    Dec 7, 2020 · Made in 1974, The Front Page is the third film version of the 1928 Broadway play written by former journalist Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. It was first adapted for the screen in 1931 with Pat O'Brien as Hildy and Adolphe Menjou as Burns.

  5. www.talkhouse.com › on-the-idiosyncratic-pleasuresOn the Idiosyncratic Pleasures of Billy Wilder’s The Front Page

    May 21, 2021 · The result, Billy Wilder’s 1974 adaptation of Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur’s 1928 play The Front Page, came nowhere close to The Sting’s critical or economic success, and in many ways it probably felt dated the weekend it came out.

  6. www.imdb.com › title › tt0071524The Front Page (1974) - IMDb

    The Front Page: Directed by Billy Wilder. With Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia. A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.

    • (16K)
    • Comedy, Drama, Romance
    • Billy Wilder
    • 1974-12-20

  7. www.bfi.org.uk › film › 6201aa7a-48a1/5368/8304The Front Page (1974) - BFI

    Billy Wilder Produced by Paul Monash Written by Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond Featuring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon

  8. People also ask

  9. www.commentary.org › what-wilder-did-to-brackettWhat Wilder Did to Brackett – Commentary Magazine

    Nov 1, 2014 · It seems as likely, though, that Wilder, unlike his more equable partner, longed to make movies that were even harsher in tone, because his next project, Ace in the Hole (1951), was his darkest film, a grim variation on The Front Page, the perennially popular 1928 Ben Hecht–Charles MacArthur stage play about newspaper journalism (which in ...