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The Front Page
Comedy
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.
View on IMDbAppeals to viewers who enjoy rapid-fire newsroom banter, ethically dubious professionals, and farcical pressure-cooker comedies driven by verbal wit.
- Tone
- darkly comic, satirical, frenetic
- Payoff
- amusement, catharsis
- Pacing
- relentless
- Intensity
- moderate
- Structure
- linear
- Themes
- journalism, ambition, manipulation, work-life conflict, institutional corruption
- Setting
- 1920s, bustling metropolitan newspaper office and courthouse district
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