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A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.
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Hildy Johnson
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Walter Burns
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Peggy Grant
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Sheriff
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Bensinger
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Kruger
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Earl Williams
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Murphy
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Schwartz (as Herbert Edelman)
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Dr. Eggelhofer
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The Mayor
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Jacobi
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McHugh
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Rudy Keppler
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Endicott
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Plunkett
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Jennie
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Wilson
Joshua Shelley ...
Cab Driver
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Telegrapher
John Furlong ...
Duffy
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Police Dispatcher
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Myrtle
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Butch
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Mollie Malloy
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Policeman (uncredited)
Mark Sawtelle ...
Boy (uncredited)

Directed by

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Billy Wilder

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Ben Hecht ... (play) and
Charles MacArthur ... (play)
 
Billy Wilder ... (screenplay) &
I.A.L. Diamond ... (screenplay)

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Jennings Lang ... executive producer
Paul Monash ... producer

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Jordan Cronenweth ... director of photography (as Jordan S. Cronenweth)

Editing by

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Ralph E. Winters

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Henry Bumstead

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James W. Payne

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Burton Miller

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Connie Nichols ... hair stylist (uncredited)

Production Management

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Carter De Haven Jr. ... unit production manager
Charles Clement ... post production operations head (uncredited)

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Charles Dismukes ... second assistant director (as Charles E. Dismukes)
Howard G. Kazanjian ... first assistant director
Carey Loftin ... second unit director
Craig Huston ... additional second assistant director (uncredited)

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Jack Hamilton ... assistant property master
John R. Jensen ... construction foreman
Birney Lettick ... poster artist
Robert Murdock ... property master
Bill Gold ... poster designer (uncredited)

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Jack Bolger ... re-recording mixer
Robert L. Hoyt ... sound (as Robert Hoyt)
Robert Martin ... sound
Ronald Pierce ... re-recording mixer
George Fredrick ... sound editor (uncredited)
Colin C. Mouat ... sound editor (uncredited)
Dennis C. Salcedo ... optical sound recordist (uncredited)
Roger Sword ... sound editor (uncredited)

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Max Balchowsky ... stunts (uncredited)
Roger Creed ... stunts (uncredited)
Howard Curtis ... stunts (uncredited)
Fred Dale ... stunts (uncredited)
Gary Davis ... stunts (uncredited)
Bud Ekins ... stunts (uncredited)
Louie Elias ... stunts (uncredited)
Richard Farnsworth ... stunts (uncredited)
Bobby Ferro ... stunts (uncredited)
Eddie Hice ... stunts (uncredited)
Tommy J. Huff ... stunts (uncredited)
William T. Lane ... stunts (uncredited)
Carey Loftin ... stunt coordinator (uncredited)
Gary McLarty ... stunts (uncredited)
Paul Nuckles ... stunts (uncredited)
John Quijada ... stunts (uncredited)
Ronnie Rondell Jr. ... stunts (uncredited)
Wally Rose ... stunts (uncredited)
Tom Steele ... stunts (uncredited)
Jerry Summers ... stunts (uncredited)
Marvin Walters ... stunts (uncredited)
Richard Washington ... stunts (uncredited)
Fred Waugh ... stunts (uncredited)
Jesse Wayne ... stunt double: Austin Pendleton (uncredited) / stunts (uncredited)
Jack Wilson ... stunts (uncredited)

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Arthur W. Frantz ... lighting tech: san francisco
Thomas Del Ruth ... camera operator (uncredited)
Doug Mathias ... lighting technician (uncredited)

Music Department

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Billy May ... music adaptor

Additional Crew

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Wayne Fitzgerald ... title designer
Tom Greene ... production assistant (uncredited)
Rex McGee ... assistant: Billy Wilder (uncredited)
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Plot Summary

When Hildy Johnson, the top reporter of a Chicago newspaper, announces that he is quitting to get married, his editor, Walter Burns, desperately tries to change his mind. When denial, cursing, and luring don't work, Walter resorts to tricks. It's the day before a supposed communist is to be hanged, and all Chicago waits with bated breath. Meanwhile, each of the city's papers has a man on the story trying to get a scoop or angle for themselves. With a train to catch at midnight to join his fiancé, Hildy is at first not interested, but events and his own habits work against him as the day unfolds, and he can't help but get roped in, especially when the man to be executed escapes and then almost literally falls into his lap. Written by RCBP_Collection

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Taglines They'd do anything for a story...and do. See more »
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Also Known As
  • Spéciale première (France)
  • Extrablatt (Germany)
  • Primera plana (Spain)
  • Stoppa pressarna (Finland, Swedish title)
  • Na titulní straně (Czechia)
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Runtime
  • 105 min
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Budget $4,000,000 (estimated)

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Trivia This version of "The Front Page" was the first to mention the city by name and use real Chicago newspapers. Billy Wilder felt that Chicago was the most exciting newspaper town in the country. See more »
Goofs Hildy reminds Jenny, the cleaning woman, that he got her husband on The Amateur Hour. Major Bowes' Amateur Hour premiered as a local show in New York in 1934, and on the NBC Network in 1935, six years after this movie was set. See more »
Movie Connections Featured in AFI Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Billy Wilder (1986). See more »
Soundtracks Button Up Your Overcoat See more »
Crazy Credits The closing credits sequence began by scrolling up photos of the major characters, flanked by printed info on what happened to each character. The acting and music credits followed. See more »
Quotes [last lines]
Walter Burns: That train that just left, what's the first stop?
Telegrapher: Gary, Indiana.
Walter Burns: All right. Send a message to the police chief at Gary, Indiana. Tell him to meet the midnight train to Philadelphia and arrest one Hildy Johnson.
Telegrapher: Hildy Johnson?
Walter Burns: Yeah. Son of a bitch stole my watch.
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