The Front Page

(1931)

103 minutes

Comedy

Directed by Lewis Milestone

Cast: 

Adolphe Menjou as Walter Burns
Pat O'Brien as Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson
Mary Brian as Peggy Grant
Edward Everett Horton as Roy V. Bensinger
Walter Catlett as Jimmy Murphy
George E. Stone as Earl Williams
Mae Clarke as Molly Malloy
Slim Summerville as Irving Pincus
Matt Moore as Ernie Kruger
Frank McHugh as Mac McCue
Clarence Wilson as Sheriff Peter B. 'Pinky ' Hartman
Fred Howard as Schwartz
Phil Tead as Wilson
Eugene Strong as Endicott
Spencer Charters as Woodenshoes
Maurice Black as Diamond Louie
Effie Ellsler as Mrs Grant
Dorothea Wolbert as Jenny
James Gordon as Fred, The Mayor

The first film version of the Hecht-MacArthur play is forceful, funny, and flamboyantly directed.  Menjou and O’Brien play battling editor and reporter covering a hanging.  The film was remade as “His Girl Friday ” with Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell.