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The Front Page

USA 1974 Spielfilm

Credits

Director

  • Billy Wilder

Screenplay

  • Billy Wilder
  • I.A.L. Diamond
  • Audrey Wilder

Director of photography

  • Jordan S. Cronenweth

Editing

  • Ralph E. Winters

Music

  • Billy May

Cast

  • Jack Lemmon
    Hildy Johnson
  • Walter Matthau
    Walter Burns
  • Susan Sarandon
    Peggy Grant
  • Cliff Osmond
    Jacobi
  • Jon Korkes
    Rudy Keppler
  • Dick O'Neill
    McHugh
  • Lou Frizell
    Endicott
  • Peter Benedikt
    Plunkett
  • Doro Merande
    Jennie
  • Harold Gould
    Bürgermeister

Production company

  • Universal Pictures Corporation Co. Inc. (Universal City)

Producer

  • Paul Monash

Alle Credits

Director

  • Billy Wilder

2nd Unit director

  • Carey Loftin

Assistant director

  • Howard G. Kazanjian
  • Charles E. Dismukes
  • Jack Saunders

Screenplay

  • Billy Wilder
  • I.A.L. Diamond
  • Audrey Wilder

based on

  • Ben Hecht (Bühnenstück)
  • Charles MacArthur (Bühnenstück)

Director of photography

  • Jordan S. Cronenweth

Production design

  • Henry Larrecq
  • Henry Bumstead

Set design

  • James W. Payne

Set design (other)

  • Henry Larrecq (Überwachung)
  • Henry Bumstead (Überwachung)

Costume design

  • Burton Miller

Editing

  • Ralph E. Winters

Sound

  • Robert Martin
  • Robert Hoyt

Special effects

  • Nick Carey

Music

  • Billy May

Music performer

  • Ray Henderson ("Button up Your Overcoat")
  • Lew Brown ("Button up Your Overcoat")
  • Buddy G. DeSylva ("Button up Your Overcoat")

Cast

  • Jack Lemmon
    Hildy Johnson
  • Walter Matthau
    Walter Burns
  • Susan Sarandon
    Peggy Grant
  • Cliff Osmond
    Jacobi
  • Jon Korkes
    Rudy Keppler
  • Dick O'Neill
    McHugh
  • Lou Frizell
    Endicott
  • Peter Benedikt
    Plunkett
  • Doro Merande
    Jennie
  • Harold Gould
    Bürgermeister
  • Joshua Shelley
    Taxifahrer
  • Austin Pendleton
    Earl Williams
  • John Furlong
    Duffy
  • Biff Elliot
    Streifenpolizist
  • Barbara Davis
    Myrtle
  • Leonard Bremen
    Butch
  • Noam Pitlik
    Wilson
  • Herb Edelman
    Schwartz
  • Martin Gabel
    Dr. Eggelhofer
  • Allen Jenkins
    Telegrapher
  • Carol Burnett
    Mollie Malloy
  • Vincent Gardenia
    Sheriff
  • David Wayne
    Bensinger
  • Allen Garfield
    Kruger
  • Charles Durning
    Murphy

Production company

  • Universal Pictures Corporation Co. Inc. (Universal City)

Producer

  • Paul Monash

Unit production manager

  • Jennings Lang

Location manager

  • Carter DeHaven Jr.

Shoot

    • From 08.04.1974: Studioaufnahmen: Universal Studios, Universal City; Außenaufnahmen: Chicago
Duration:
105 min
Format:
35mm, Panavision
Video/Audio:
Technicolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (US): 17.12.1974;
Kinostart (DE): 27.03.1975;
TV-Erstsendung: 26.08.1979, ZDF

Titles

Additional titles
  • Verleihtitel (DE) Extrablatt
  • Originaltitel (US) The Front Page

Versions

Original

Duration:
105 min
Format:
35mm, Panavision
Video/Audio:
Technicolor, Ton
Screening:

Uraufführung (US): 17.12.1974;
Kinostart (DE): 27.03.1975;
TV-Erstsendung: 26.08.1979, ZDF

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