Film
The Front Page
- Director
- Lewis Milestone
- Certificate
- PG
- Running Time
- 62 mins
There have been multiple screen versions of Hecht and MacArthur’s fast-talking Broadway hit set in the cynical newspaper world, the best of which is His Girl Friday. But it was All Quiet on the Western Front director Lewis Milestone who got in first, having been recruited by none other than Howard Hughes to direct this 1931 adaptation. It’s a tad stilted, but as a pre-Hays Code film it got away with plenty of rudery that the censor would later snip.
This is the UK premiere of the 2016 4K restoration of the preferred original US release version of the film. It’s back on screen in the ‘shed’s timely Manipulating the Message season as part of this year’s Cinema Rediscovered.
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