The Front Page
- PG
- Year:
- 1974
- 105 min
- 2,908 Views
Hey, Jacobi!
Fatso.
Hold it down, will you?
People are trying
to work up here.
Screw you!
No respect for the press.
You in or out?
I'm in. I'm in.
Ante up.
All right.
Why the hell don't we chip in
and get some new cards?
Don't look at me, I haven't won a hand
since Leopold and Lobe.
Jack bets.
A nickel.
Call.
Possible straight.
Possible flush.
Jack-eight,
pair of sevens.
Possible sh*t.
Pair of sevens
bet a nickel.
A nickel, a schtickel.
I raise you a dime.
Gaylord Schwartz,
Riverboat gambler, I raise you a dime.
It's a quarter to me, right?
I'll stick.
I'll call.
Why doesn't somebody
answer the phone?
It's the
Examiner phone.
Flush.
Criminal Courts, pressroom.
No, Hildy Johnson
isn't here.
Queen.
Oh, hello, Mr. Burns.
No, Hildy hasn't come in yet.
Sure thing, Mr. Burns,
I'll tell him the minute he shows up.
That's the third time
Walter Burns has called.
Where do you
suppose Hildy is?
Probably had a big night
at Madame Chow's.
I hear she's got some new broads in
from San Francisco.
I could go for a little
of that sweet and sour pork right now.
Come on, cut the gab.
Jacks bet.
I check to
the Chinese gourmet.
Two bits.
Call me a sucker.
El foldo.
This place smells
like the city dump.
How can you breathe
in here?
Hey, Bensinger,
any news on the hanging?
Did you talk
to the Sheriff?
Why don't you guys
get your own stories?
Who's been
using my towel?
And where is
my toilet paper?
How many times
have I told you--
Temper. Temper.
For Christ's sake, why don't you bring
your own toilet paper?
Or use those rags
you work for?
Two pair, jacks high.
Read them and weep,
three treys.
Beats me.
Here you are, Bensinger.
Hey, blushing pink.
Whoa, whoa.
I only used four sheets.
Bunch of goddamn gypsies.
This is Bensinger,
give me a rewrite man.
Take your time.
Take your time.
Oh, Marty, is that you?
"New lead
on the Earl Williams hanging."
Yes, the execution
is still set for 7:00 in the morning.
"The authorities
are prepared
for a general uprising
of radicals at that time."
Murphy here.
Get me rewrite.
"Extra guards have just been thrown
around the jail,
"the municipal building,
railroad terminals,
elevated stations."
Update on
the Williams hanging.
Sheriff Hartman's just put
200 more relatives on the payroll
to protect the city
against the Red Army,
which is leaving Moscow
in a couple of minutes.
Bet a dime.
Now, this is what the condemned man
ordered for his final meal:
Shrimp cocktail
with Thousand Island dressing,
rare roast beef,
Brussels sprouts,
apple pie a la mode,
Ovaltine.
"For his last meal
Williams is getting
a 95-cent blue plate special from
the greasy spoon across the street."
"At 9:
00 tonight, Williams will beexamined by still another psychologist
"Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer,
at the request of the
Friends of American Liberty."
Eggelhofer.
Yes, he's from Vienna.
It's in my story
this morning.
He wrote that book
Self Abuse and Antisocial Behavior.
Poor bastard's gonna swing
in the morning
and this brain wants to ask if he played
with himself when he was five.
Pair of bullets.
More later.
Half a buck.
Wait a minute.
Don't I get a card?
Call.
Pressroom.
No, Mr. Burns,
Hildy hasn't shown yet.
No, we haven't heard a word--
That dumb
son-of-a-b*tch bastard!
Who does he think he is?
I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to yell at you.
Well, look,
will you be kind enough
to tell that dumb son-of-a-b*tch bastard
to get his ass over here?
Thank you.
Any luck?
every gamblin' joint.
No Hildy.
Call
the Sanitation Department,
maybe they've picked
him up in some gutter.
I guess I better
check the hospitals or the morgue.
Be just like that clown
to die on me on the eve of a hanging.
Which one do you like?
They all stink.
Trouble is, there's not much
you can do with a hanging.
Now, if we had the electric chair
in this state,
that's something
you can really sink your teeth into.
"Williams gets the hot seat!"
"Williams Fries."
"Williams Roasted Alive."
# Step right up
Shake my hand #
# My baby told me
that she loves me #
Mr. Johnson,
I'm so glad.
Mr. Burns has been
looking for you all over.
# Congratulate me,
step right up #
# Shake my hand #
Hi, Hildy.
Is it a holiday
or something?
Hey, look at him.
Prince of Wales.
# Congratulate me
I'm in love ##
Where the hell
have you been?
Well, let's see.
I had a haircut,
I got a manicure,
I did a little shoppin'.
Hi, Duffy.
Yeah.
What the hell are you
dressed up for?
You're not covering
a polo match,
you're covering a hanging.
That's what I wanted
to talk to you about.
Tomorrow you and I
are gonna stand this town on its ear.
Oh, yeah.
Every damn paper is gonna have
the same damn story on that execution.
But we're going
to scoop them all.
Because you know
what goes in there?
A picture of Williams
swinging by the neck.
A picture?
A photograph, the first time anywhere.
Exclusive in the Examiner.
What are you
talkin' about?
That's against the law.
You can't bring a camera in there.
Who's gonna know?
Here, I had this
specially rigged up.
You clip it to your ankle,
you run the tube up your pants leg.
Make a hole in your pocket.
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