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Chicago Examiner reporter Hildebrand "Hildy" Johnson (Jack Lemmon) has just quit his job in order to marry Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon) and start a new career, when convict Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton) escapes from death row just prior to his execution. Earl is an impoverished, bumbling leftist whose offense was stuffing fortune cookies with messages demanding the release from death row of the equally overblown murder convictees Sacco and Vanzetti. The Yellow press has painted Earl as another Communist threat from Moscow, meaning that Chicago citizens are anxious to see him also put to death.
| MPAA Rating: | PG |
| Genre: | Comedy, Drama, Romance |
| Country: | United States |
| Produced By: | Jennings Lang, Paul Monash |
| Directed By: | Billy Wilder |
| Written By: | Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur |
| Cast: | Joshua Shelley, Dick O'Neill, Jon Korkes, Austin Pendleton, Martin Gabel, Barbara Davis, John Furlong, Cliff Osmond, Harold Gould, Noam Pitlik, Allen Jenkins, Doro Merande, Allen Garfield, Jack Lemmon, Biff Elliot, Susan Sarandon, David Wayne, Herb Edelman, Lou Frizzell, Carol Burnett, Leonard Bremen, Walter Matthau, Vincent Gardenia, Charles Durning, Paul Benedict |
| In Theaters: | Dec 18, 1974 |
| Runtime: | 1 hour 45 minutes |
| Production: | Universal Pictures |
| Budget: | $4,000,000 |
| Read More On: | Wikipedia |
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