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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

The Front Page

Ben Hecht

Paperback | Pages: 146 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 154 Users | 15 Reviews

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Title	:	The Front Page
Author	:	Ben Hecht
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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: Interior

An 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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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.

A few years ago, I watched His Girl Friday, the 1940 adaptation of this 1924 play. I enjoyed the movie, so I was looking forward to reading this play.This ones a bit too dated for me. When judging a story, I generally try and consider the time in which a piece was written, but I couldnt get over the casual racism and sexism in this one. Plus, Hildy Johnson is a much more interesting character as a woman (as she is in His Girl Friday). Hes kind of a jerk in the original play.I rewatched His Girl

A quick read, with snappy dialogue. I do think Howard Hawks improved on it with the film HIS GIRL FRIDAY. In Hecht's play, the protagonist (Hildy) is a man. In the film, Hildy is a woman, specifically Burns' ex-wife. Moreover, in the film, Hildy's spouse-to-be (played to perfection by Ralph Bellamy) provides hilarious comic relief. Reading the play, I realize that Hawks' casting of Cary Grant as Burns was brilliant; I don't think anyone but Grant could have played him.

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.

Interesting. Quick moving. Complicated beginning. No real hero characters to cheer for.

Rollicking old-fashioned, fast-paced farce. Loved it!

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.