A crusading newspaper editor tricks his retiring star reporter into covering one last case.
The Front Page 1931 HD | Comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone | Adolphe Menjou, Pat O’Brien & Mary Brian
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There’s nothing like an original !!! Hildy Johnson (Pat O’Brien), newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to pay off an insider and get the scoop on the escape. However, Walter Burns (Adolphe Menjou), the Post’s editor, is slow to repay Hildy back, hoping that he will stay on the story. Getting a major scoop looks possible when Hildy stumbles onto the bewildered escapee and hides him in a roll-top desk in the press room. Burns shows up to help. Can they keep Williams’ whereabouts secret long enough to get the scoop, especially with the Sheriff and other reporters hovering around? Nominated for three Oscars
The Front Page is a 1931 American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O’Brien (actor). Based on a The Front Page, 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, George E. Stone, Matt Moore (actor), and Edward Everett Horton. At the 4th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Academy Award for Best Picture, Milestone for Academy Award for Best Director, and Menjou for Academy Award for Best Picture.
In 2010, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
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The film, considered a screwball comedy, centers on an investigative reporter (Pat O’Brien) and his editor (Adolphe Menjou), who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer (Stone) and hide him in a roll top desk while everybody else tries to find him.
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