FRONT PAGE [BLU-RAY]

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• Release Year: 1931
• Genre: Comedy
• Plot: Raucous, irreverent, and relentlessly funny, THE FRONT PAGE is a landmark of cinema history—a brilliantly orchestrated, high-speed satire that set the standard for the countless screwball comedies that followed in its wake.; ; Based on the wildly successful (and controversial) play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, THE FRONT PAGE follows hard-boiled reporter Hildy Johnson (Pat O'Brien) who has vowed to quit the business and marry his sweetheart (Mary Brian). But when a political radical (George E. Stone) escapes from custody on the eve of his hanging, the reporter's room is plunged into comedic chaos, and Hildy's brash editor (Adolphe Menjou) sees it as an opportunity to manipulate the reporter into staying.; ; Few films can match the risqué flavor and the breakneck pace of THE FRONT PAGE, a masterpiece that spawned an entire genre—and earned Academy Award nominations for Best Picture, Best Actor (Menjou), and Best Director (Lewis Milestone), as well as a spot on the esteemed National Film Registry.;
• Cast: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, George E. Stone, Mae Clarke, Slim Summerville, Matt Moore, Frank McHugh, Clarence Wilson, Fred Howard, Phil Tead, Eugene Strong, Spencer Charters, Maurice Black, Effie Ellsler, Dorothea Wolbert, James Gordon, Richard Alexander, James Donlan, Dot Farley, Francis Ford, Sol Gorss, Max Hoffman Jr., George Magrill, Herman J. Mankiewicz, Lewis Milestone, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur, Bartlett Cormack, Charles Lederer
• Director: Lewis Milestone
• Runtime: 1:40
• Company: United Artists Pictures Inc., The Caddo Company, Kino Lorber Incorporated
• Media Format: Movie