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The Front Page
The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code screwball black comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Based on the 1928 Broadway play of the same name by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists. The supporting cast includes Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, George E. Stone, Mae Clarke, Slim Summerville, and Matt Moore. At the 4th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Milestone for Best Director, and Menjou for Best Actor.
Plot
In an unnamed large city with multiple daily newspapers, star reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson and his Morning Post editor, Walter Burns, hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped convicted murderer, Earl Williams. Williams is scheduled to go to the gallows at 7 o'clock the following morning for an anarchist-related murder of a black policeman. Esteemed newspaperman Johnson is about to quit the journalism trade and is on his way to marry his sweetheart Peggy Grant and relocate to New York City where an advertising job awaits him. Not surprisingly, his unscrupulous boss Burns does not want him to quit. He wants Johnson to remain on his staff so he can cover the major news story for the Morning Post.
Awards
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| author | Charles Lederer |
|---|---|
| award | National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Chicago |
| director | Lewis Milestone |
| editor | W. Duncan Mansfield |
| events | capital punishment |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | advertise arrest build convicted murderer escaped convict exaggerated flee gold watch innocent man kidnap married morning new york city newspaper reporter press room railroad station rolltop desk wed wrongdoing |
| musicBy | Ernö Rapée |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Picture |
| producer | Howard Hughes |
| productionCompany | The Caddo Company |
| publisher | United Artists |
| theme | black comedy |