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| Original Title: | The Front Page: A Play in Three Acts |
| ISBN: | 0573609128 (ISBN13: 9780573609121) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Ben Hecht
Paperback | Pages: 146 pages Rating: 3.75 | 154 Users | 15 Reviews
Point About Books The Front Page
| Title | : | The Front Page |
| Author | : | Ben Hecht |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 146 pages |
| Published | : | September 27th 2010 by Samuel French, Inc. (first published 1924) |
| Categories | : | Plays. Drama. Theatre. Writing. Journalism |
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Comedy / Characters: 17 males, 5 females Set Requirements: InteriorAn irresistible comedy with thrills and derring do set in the news room. Hildy wants to break away from journalism and go on a belated honeymoon. There is a jailbreak and into Hildy's hands falls the escapee as hostage. He conceals his prize in a rolltop desk and phones his scoop to his managing editor. Their job is to prevent other reporters and the sheriff from opening the desk and finding their story. Some hoods are enli
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Ratings: 3.75 From 154 Users | 15 ReviewsCrit About Books The Front Page
Interesting. Quick moving. Complicated beginning. No real hero characters to cheer for.Dated piece. Politically incorrect language in a big way. Most audiences would walk out I think.
Broadhurst Theater, NYCNathan LaneJohn GoodmanJohn Slattery
DNF at p.23. The n--- word, casual references to domestic violence, constant jabbering. I realize the banter and chaos is supposed to represent a bunch of reporters killing time waiting for an execution to happen, but it just gave me a headache. No future for this one. Too bad because the movie was fun and the set is an octagonal press room at the criminal courts building. We've never done that one!
Well, I've now read this twice and watched the 1973 film with Jack Lemmon/Walter Mathau/Susan Sarandon in addition to watching HIS GIRL FRIDAY, which is an adaptation of the lead character as a woman (Rosalind Russell in that role). This has been a fun little research project...stopping and looking up all sorts of slang that I've never heard (of course they're from 1927, so...I'm not surprised), but I'm excited to jump into my little part of Peggy Grant. I have lots of books from the 1920s I'm
Synopsis: twice a movie. A comedic play about an escaped murderer set in a news room. Reporter Hildy hides him in a desk to get the scoop.
Ben Hecht was an American screenwriter, director, producer, playwright, journalist, and novelist. A journalist in his youth, he went on to write 35 books and some of the most entertaining screenplays and plays in America. He received screen credits, alone or in collaboration, for the stories or screenplays of some seventy films.I'm not sure what the point of this play is. It didn't seem to know if it was a comedy, a drama, or a farce. I didn't find any of the characters remotely likable or relatable, and about half of them were completely superfluous to the plot. I simply didn't get it.
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