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The Front Page (1931)

Name: The Front Page
Genre: Crime & Mystery
Released: 1931
Duration: 1 h 39 min
Cast: Gustav von Seyffertitz, Frank McHugh, Lewis Milestone, Matt Moore, Adolphe Menjou

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The Front Page (1931) is a 100-minute crime and mystery film that airs free on Starlite TV's Case Files (CH 9) channel. Our rights research indicates it is in the U.S. public domain (evidence below). Directed by Lewis Milestone.

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About The Front Page (1931)

The Front Page is a 1931 American pre-Code screwball black comedy film directed by Lewis Milestone and starring Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. Based on the 1928 Broadway play of the same name by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, the film was produced by Howard Hughes, written by Bartlett Cormack and Charles Lederer, and distributed by United Artists.

In an unnamed large city with multiple daily newspapers, star reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson and his Morning Post editor, Walter Burns, hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped convicted murderer, Earl Williams. Williams is scheduled to go to the gallows at 7 o'clock the following morning for an anarchist-related murder of a black policeman. Esteemed newspaperman Johnson is about to quit the journalism trade and is on his way to marry his sweetheart Peggy Grant and relocate to New York City where an advertising job awaits him. Not surprisingly, his unscrupulous boss Burns does not want him to quit.

Summary adapted from the Wikipedia article The Front Page (1931 film) (text available under CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Credits

Directed by: Lewis Milestone
Cast includes: Gustav von Seyffertitz, Frank McHugh, Lewis Milestone, Matt Moore, Adolphe Menjou, Mae Clarke, Mary Brian, George E. Stone
Country: United States

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Case Files - CH 9, Crime & Mystery TV

Rights & source

Basis: Documented as U.S. public domain (e.g. copyright not renewed / no notice)
Evidence: Listed in Wikipedia 'List of films in the public domain in the United States' (cites Pierce 2007 / Fishman / trade sources). Hecht/MacArthur play 1928 PD.
Music: Film soundtrack falls with the film; separately published songs (if any) not individually cleared.
Underlying rights: Hecht/MacArthur play 1928 PD.
Source: Internet Archive

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