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When Hildy Johnson, the top reporter of a Chicago newspaper, announces that he is quitting to get married, his editor, Walter Burns, desperately tries to change his mind. When denial, cursing, and luring dont work, Walter resorts to tricks. Its the day before a supposed communist is to be hanged, and all Chicago waits with bated breath. Meanwhile, each of the citys papers has a man on the story trying to get a scoop or angle for themselves. With a train to catch at midnight to join his fiancé, Hildy is at first not interested, but events and his own habits work against him as the day unfolds, and he cant help but get roped in, especially when the man to be executed escapes and then almost literally falls into his lap.
Comedy team and make the front page in this newspaper romp. Editor Walter Burns, played by Matthau, does not want prize reporter Hildy Johnson, played by Lemmon, to retire from the news business to get married, so he exploits the prison escape of a death row anarchist to keep him from leaving. directs this film version of the 1928 and Broadway hit, also featuring , , and .
Jack Lemmon
Hildy Johnson
Walter Matthau
Walter Burns
Susan Sarandon
Peggy Grant
Vincent Gardenia
Sheriff
David Wayne
Bensinger
Allen Garfield
Kruger
Austin Pendleton
Earl Williams
Charles Durning
Murphy
Herb Edelman
Schwartz
Martin Gabel
Dr. Eggelhofer
Harold Gould
The Mayor
Cliff Osmond
Jacobi
Dick O'Neill
McHugh
Jon Korkes
Rudy Keppler
Lou Frizzell
Endicott
Paul Benedict
Plunkett
Doro Merande
Jennie
Noam Pitlik
Wilson
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