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Director
  
Lewis Milestone

Screenplay
  
Charles Lederer

Language
  
English

6.9/10
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Genre
  
Comedy

Duration
  

Country
  
United States

The Front Page (1931 film) movie poster

Writer
  
Bartlett Cormack
,
Charles Lederer

Release date
  
April 4, 1931 (1931-04-04)

Producers
  
Lewis Milestone, Howard Hughes

Cast
  
Pat O'Brien
(Hildy Johnson),
Adolphe Menjou
(Walter Burns),
Mary Brian
(Peggy Grant),
Edward Everett Horton
(Bensinger),
Walter Catlett
(Murphy (as Walter L. Catlett)),
George E. Stone
(Earl Williams)

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The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Based on a Broadway play of the same name, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists. The supporting cast includes Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore, Edward Everett Horton and Walter Catlett. At the 4th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Milestone for Best Director, and Menjou for Best Actor.

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In 2010, this film was selected for the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

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Plot

The film, considered a screwball comedy, centers on a reporter, Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson (Pat O'Brien) and his editor (Adolphe Menjou), who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer, Earl Williams (Stone) and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him.

Cast

  • Adolphe Menjou as Walter Burns
  • Pat O'Brien as Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson
  • Mary Brian as Peggy Grant
  • Edward Everett Horton as Roy V. Bensinger
  • Walter Catlett as Jimmy Murphy
  • George E. Stone as Earl Williams
  • Mae Clarke as Molly Malloy
  • Slim Summerville as Irving Pincus
  • Matt Moore as Ernie Kruger
  • Frank McHugh as "Mac" McCue
  • Clarence Wilson as Sheriff Peter B. "Pinky" Hartman
  • Fred Howard as Schwartz
  • Phil Tead as Wilson
  • Eugene Strong as Endicott
  • Spencer Charters as Woodenshoes
  • Maurice Black as Diamond Louie
  • Effie Ellsler as Mrs Grant
  • Dorothea Wolbert as Jenny
  • James Gordon as Fred, the Mayor

    • Adaptations

    The film has been remade or adapted on several occasions. CBS radio turned it into a one-hour episode of Academy Award Theater with O'Brien and Menjou, a June 28, 1937 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Walter Winchell and James Gleason, and a May 9, 1948 episode of the Ford Theatre starring Ed Begley and Everett Sloane. The story was adapted for Howard Hawks's comedy His Girl Friday (1940), a 1974 remake of The Front Page starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and another version was made as Switching Channels (1988) with Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeve.

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