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The Front Page

A ruthless editor tries to get his top reporter to cover one more crime story before retirement.

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.

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Info about The Front Page

Studio(s): Universal Pictures

Originally Released: United Kingdom, Nov 01, 1974

Production Country: United States

Budget: $4,000,000.00

Genres:Comedy, Drama, Romance

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