Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 9,10 (click to see context) from:
''The Front Page'' was the first of several [[TheFilmOfThePlay screen adaptations]] of the hit 1928 stage play of the same title (written by former real-life Chicago news reporters Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=]). It was [[Film/TheFrontPage remade in 1974]] by Creator/BillyWilder, and again in 1988 as ''Switching Channels'', which updated the setting for the [[TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks cable TV news]] era. However, the most famous remake was Creator/HowardHawks' 1940 film ''Film/HisGirlFriday''. That version, while being very faithful to the story of the play and the 1931 film, pulled a GenderFlip in which "Hildy Johnson" became a woman (played by Creator/RosalindRussell) and her editor Walter Burns (played by Creator/CaryGrant) became her ex-husband as well as her boss.
to:
''The Front Page'' was the first of several [[TheFilmOfThePlay screen adaptations]] of the hit 1928 stage play of the same title (written by former real-life Chicago news reporters Ben Hecht and Charles [=MacArthur=]). It was [[Film/TheFrontPage remade in 1974]] by Creator/BillyWilder, and again in 1988 as ''Switching Channels'', ''Film/SwitchingChannels'', which updated the setting for the [[TwentyFourHourNewsNetworks cable TV news]] era. However, the most famous remake was Creator/HowardHawks' 1940 film ''Film/HisGirlFriday''. That version, while being very faithful to the story of the play and the 1931 film, pulled a GenderFlip in which "Hildy Johnson" became a woman (played by Creator/RosalindRussell) and her editor Walter Burns (played by Creator/CaryGrant) became her ex-husband as well as her boss.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* SoundEffectBleep: A curse in the film's final line is obliterated by Walter noisily smacking a typewriter.
to:
* SoundEffectBleep: A curse word in the film's final line is obliterated by Walter noisily smacking a typewriter.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 37 (click to see context) from:
* SoundEffectBleep: A curse in the film's final line is obliterated by Walter smacking a typewriter.
to:
* SoundEffectBleep: A curse in the film's final line is obliterated by Walter noisily smacking a typewriter.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,6 (click to see context) from:
''The Front Page'' is a 1931 American comedy film produced by Creator/HowardHughes and directed by Creator/LewisMilestone, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien along with a supporting cast including Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, and Creator/MaeClarke.
Hildy Johnson (O'Brien), an investigative reporter for ''The Morning Post'', is engaged to be married, and is quitting the newspaper business to go work for his fiancée Peggy's family's advertising firm in New York. Hildy drops by the press room at the courthouse to say goodbye to all of his fellow reporters on the crime beat. The reporters are all at the courthouse to cover the impending execution of one Earl Williams, a mentally-addled anarchist convicted of murdering a cop. All of the reporters think that the cynical mayor is greasing the skids for Williams's execution in order to get re-elected--the election is in two days, and [[RedScare anti-Red sentiment]] is running high.
Hildy Johnson (O'Brien), an investigative reporter for ''The Morning Post'', is engaged to be married, and is quitting the newspaper business to go work for his fiancée Peggy's family's advertising firm in New York. Hildy drops by the press room at the courthouse to say goodbye to all of his fellow reporters on the crime beat. The reporters are all at the courthouse to cover the impending execution of one Earl Williams, a mentally-addled anarchist convicted of murdering a cop. All of the reporters think that the cynical mayor is greasing the skids for Williams's execution in order to get re-elected--the election is in two days, and [[RedScare anti-Red sentiment]] is running high.
to:
''The Front Page'' is a 1931 American comedy film produced by Creator/HowardHughes and directed by Creator/LewisMilestone, starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien along with a supporting cast including Mary Brian, Edward Everett Horton, Walter Catlett, George E. Stone, Slim Summerville, and Creator/MaeClarke.
Hildy Johnson (O'Brien), an investigative reporter for ''The Morning Post'', is engaged to be married, and is quitting the newspaper business to go work for his fiancée Peggy's family's advertising firm in New York. Hildy drops by the press room at the courthouse to say goodbye to all of his fellow reporters on the crime beat. The reporters are all at the courthouse to cover the impending hanging execution ofone Earl Williams, a mentally-addled anarchist convicted of murdering a cop. black policeman. All of the reporters think that the city's cynical mayor is greasing the skids for Williams's execution in order to get re-elected--the re-elected -- the election is in two days, and [[RedScare anti-Red sentiment]] is running high.
Hildy Johnson (O'Brien), an investigative reporter for ''The Morning Post'', is engaged to be married, and is quitting the newspaper business to go work for his fiancée Peggy's family's advertising firm in New York. Hildy drops by the press room at the courthouse to say goodbye to all of his fellow reporters on the crime beat. The reporters are all at the courthouse to cover the impending hanging execution of
