The Front Page (1974)

11/01/1974 (US) • 1h 45m

Comedy

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

Overview

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Top Billed Cast

Jack Lemmon

Hildebrand Johnson

Walter Matthau

Walter Burns

Susan Sarandon

Peggy Grant

David Wayne

Roy Bensinger

Austin Pendleton

Earl Williams

Herb Edelman

Schwartz


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

$4,000,000.00

Revenue

-

Keywords

chicago, illinois

newspaper

journalist

marriage proposal

stress

father-in-law

newspaper man

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