The Front Page: Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien, Edward Everett Horton, Mae Clarke (1931 Movie)

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The Front Page is a 1931 American comedy film, directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Based on a Broadway play of the same name, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists. The supporting cast includes Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore, and Edward Everett Horton. At the 4th Academy Awards, the film was nominated for Best Picture, Milestone for Best Director, and Menjou for Best Actor.

In 2010, this film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".

The film, considered a screwball comedy, centers on an investigative reporter (Pat O'Brien) and his editor (Adolphe Menjou), who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer (Stone) and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him.

Cast (in credits order) Adolphe Menjou as Walter Burns Pat O'Brien as Hildebrand 'Hildy' Johnson Mary Brian as Peggy Grant Edward Everett Horton as Roy V. Bensinger Walter Catlett as Jimmy Murphy George E. Stone as Earl Williams Mae Clarke as Molly Malloy Slim Summerville as Irving Pincus Matt Moore as Ernie Kruger Frank McHugh as 'Mac' McCue Clarence Wilson as Sheriff Peter B. 'Pinky' Hartman Fred Howard as Schwartz Phil Tead as Wilson Eugene Strong as Endicott Spencer Charters as Woodenshoes Maurice Black as Diamond Louie Effie Ellsler as Mrs Grant Dorothea Wolbert as Jenny James Gordon as Fred, The Mayor

The film has been re-envisioned several times. It was adapted into a one-hour episode of CBS radio's Academy Award Theater with O'Brien and Menjou, the June 28, 1937 episode of Lux Radio Theater with Walter Winchell and James Gleason and the May 9, 1948 episode of the Ford Theatre starring Ed Begley and Everett Sloane. The story was adapted for Howard Hawks's 1940 comedy His Girl Friday, a 1974 version of The Front Page starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and it was remade in 1988 as Switching Channels with Burt Reynolds, Kathleen Turner and Christopher Reeve.

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[jaybrad123]

Not really sure about the character Woodenshoes. Seems like a bit of snivelling nerd to me.