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The Front Page(1974)

  • Genre:
    • Romance
    • Comedy
    • Drama
  • Director:
    • Billy Wilder

As a tabloid newspaper editor tries to prevent his top reporter from retiring, an escaped death row convict shows up at the office trying to convey his innocence.

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Written by rabbisanta on 05.01.2010

Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, and Billy Wilder team up for a solid parody of print journalists and corrupt Chicago politics and police. Carol Burnett as the hooker with a heart livens up this keystone cops comedy by pleading the case of the wimp headed to the gallows. A young Susan Sarandon doesn't r

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