The Front Page

The Front Page (1974)

Timing: 1:45 (105 min)

7.252/10
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All about film

Video 2

Photo 24

Actors and characters

Release date

1974-11-01

Country

United States

Production

Universal Pictures

Genre

Comedy

Budget

$4 000 000

Revenue

$0

Website

Director

Billy Wilder

Actors

Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne, Allen Garfield, Austin Pendleton, Charles Durning, Herb Edelman, Martin Gabel
All actors and roles (10)

Scenario

Producer

Paul Monash, Jennings Lang

Operator

Jordan Cronenweth

Composer

Artist

Audition

Editing

Ralph E. Winters
All team (36)

• The idea proposed by Walter Matthau (born Walter John Matthow, 1920-2000) to secretly take a picture of a person sentenced to death at the moment of execution had a historical basis. On January 12, 1928, at the Sing Sing prison in New York, Ruth Brown Snyder and her lover Henry Judd Gray ended their lives for the murder of Ruth’s husband, Albert Snyder, a year earlier. Chicago Tribune reporter Tom Howard (1894-1961) used a hidden camera to photograph Snyder at the moment of her death. This photograph became an example of what reporters are capable of and willing to do for exclusive material. The disposable camera used by Howard is now on display at the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution.