Product ReviewsThe Front Page (DVD, 1974)

Still funny after I saw it 20 years ago!

A very funny film which hasn't lost its edge. Funny from the beginning to the end the thanks to the the performances of Walter Matthau & Jack Lemmon. They were a dream duo!

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THE FRONT PAGE IS A COMIC HIT

Great classic film featuring the best character actors of the 70s

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"Great Comedy!"

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau star in this 1974
comedy based on the play. A newspaper editor talks
his best reporter into doing a story on a prisoner
facing execution. Jack and Walter were terrific in
this as usual and this dvd has nice picture and
sound, but no extras. I recommend this great
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His Girl Friday is probably a better version of the story

Not the best Matthau-Lemmon-Wilder collaboration and Carol Burnett is wasted in her role.

FRONT PAGE - PRIMA PAGINA

Tribunale di Chicago, 1929. I giornalisti aspettano l'esecuzione dell'anarco-marxista Earl Williams, condannato con la falsa accusa di omicidio. Il reporter Hildy Johnson (Lemmon), che ha deciso di sposarsi e lasciare la vita del cronista per quella di pubblicitario, resiste al suo cinico direttore (Matthau), che tenta di trattenerlo. Ma il condannato fugge e casca in braccio proprio a Johnson. Terza versione della commedia di Ben Hecht e Charles MacArthur, dopo quella di Milestone del '31 e quella "al femminile" di Hawks. Wilder dirige ma più che attualizzare fornisce una delle sue più pure lezioni di stile e di ritmo. Perfetto il cast, dominato da uno strepitoso Matthau.Read full review...

Front page DVD

Great item many thanks

for sister-in-laws collection

sister-in-laws birthday gift

Good moments

A bit predictable but still fun

Good, but just a familiar story

I love these actors, but this is the same story as Cary Grant's "His Girl Friday". No one can top Cary Grant's delivery and the twinkle of his eyes as he tricks Hildy into staying in the game, not even Jack Lemon and Walter Mathau, beloved team as they are. It's a good movie, but it can't beat "His Girl Friday".Read full review...