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The Front Page

It's the hottest story since the Chicago fire...and they're sitting on it.

1974★ 7.3 · 3871h 45mComedy

Overview

Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.

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Cast

Susan Sarandon
as Peggy Grant

Jack Lemmon
as Hildebrand Johnson

Harold Gould
as Mayor

Walter Matthau
as Walter Burns

Carol Burnett
as Mollie Malloy

Charles Durning
as Murphy

David Wayne
as Roy Bensinger

Austin Pendleton
as Earl Williams

Herb Edelman
as Schwartz

Allen Garfield
as Kruger

Vincent Gardenia
as Sheriff

Paul Benedict
as Plunkett

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Release date: 1974-11-01

Budget: $4,000,000

Revenue: $15,000,000

Runtime: 1h 45m

Genres

Comedy

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