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The Front Page (1974)
★ 7.3 · 383 ratings on TMDB
It's the hottest story since the Chicago fire...and they're sitting on it.
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.
DirectorBilly Wilder
GenresComedy
The emergence reading
The Front Page keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.
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