The Front Page

==The Front Page==
1931, directed by Lewis Milestone
(IMDB Link) Wikipedia Summary: The film, considered a screwball comedy, centers on a reporter, Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson and his editor, who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer, Earl Williams, and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him.
*Adolphe Menjou - Walter Burns
*Pat O'Brien - Hildy Johnson
*Mary Brian - Peggy Grant
*Edward Everett Horton - Bensinger
*Walter Catlett - Murphy (as Walter L. Catlett)
*George E. Stone - Earl Williams
*Mae Clarke - Molly
*Slim Summerville - Pincus
*Matt Moore - Kruger
*Frank McHugh - McCue
*Clarence Wilson - Sheriff Hartman (as Clarence H. Wilson)
*Fred Howard - Schwartz (as Freddie Howard)
*Phil Tead - Wilson
*Eugene Strong - Endicott (as Gene Strong)
*Spencer Charters - Woodenshoes
*Maurice Black - Diamond Louie
*Effie Ellsler - Mrs. Grant
*Dorothea Wolbert - Jenny
*James Gordon - The Mayor
*Richard Alexander - Jacobi (uncredited)
*James Donlan - Reporter (uncredited)
*Francis Ford - Carl, a Detective (uncredited)
*Clark Gable - Reporter with hat at table in the prison. (uncredited) (unconfirmed)
*Sol Gorss - Policeman (uncredited)
*Herman J. Mankiewicz - Bit (uncredited)
*Lewis Milestone - Bit (uncredited)
*Gustav von Seyffertitz - Professor Max J. Engelhoffer (uncredited)
Category:Chicago
Category:Journalism
Category:Death Penalty
Category:Newspaper
Category:1931