The Front Page

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.

Details

Cast

Jack Lemmon

Hildebrand Johnson

Walter Matthau

Walter Burns

Susan Sarandon

Peggy Grant

Vincent Gardenia

Sheriff

David Wayne

Roy Bensinger

Allen Garfield

Kruger

Austin Pendleton

Earl Williams

Charles Durning

Murphy

Herb Edelman

Schwartz

Martin Gabel

Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer

Harold Gould

Mayor

Cliff Osmond

Officer Jacobi

Dick O'Neill

McHugh

Jon Korkes

Rudy Keppler

Carol Burnett

Mollie Malloy

Paul Benedict

Plunkett

Allen Jenkins

Telegrapher

Barbara Davis

Myrtle

Biff Elliot

Police Dispatcher

Lou Frizzell

Endicott