also starring
Walter Matthau. Chicago, 1929: the imminent hanging of Earl Williams, a confused anarchist, could prove to be a considerable election boost for the mayor and sheriff and the hottest story since the St Valentine's Day Massacre. When Hildy Johnson, the Examiner's star reporter, decides on the eve of the execution to quit his job for marriage and a safe position in an advertising agency, he finds making the break from his scheming editor, Walter Burns, even more difficult than he had imagined.
Written by BILLY WILDER and i. A. L. DIAMOND Based on the play by BEN HECHT and CHARLES MACARTHUR Produced by PAUL MONASH Directed by BILLY WILDER
('Jack Lemmon in: Some Like It Hot' tomorrow at 12.20am)
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