The Front Page
Billy Wilder / US, 1974 / 105 min.
Eight years after their first performance together in The Fortune Cookie, comedy legends Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau were paired for the second time in Billy Wilder’s remake of Howards Hawks’ adaptation of the play of the same name. In the darkly comic The Front Page, a portrait of hard-boiled journalism in Chicago during the Jazz Age, managing editor Walter Burns and ace reporter Hildy Johnson are after a scoop involving a convict who has escaped from death row.
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Director
Billy Wilder
Production year
1974
Country
US
Original title
The Front Page
Length
105 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
ENG
Format
DCP
Part of
Sweet & Sour: The Films of Billy Wilder
The legendary screenwriter and Hollywood director Billy Wilder was a brilliant word artist. His Oscar-winning classics are brimming with irresistible and cynical humour: incredibly funny, bold and incisive.
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