The Front Page was a hit Broadway comedy, written by one-time Chicago reporters Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur and first produced in 1928.

The Front Page is the name of a 1931 motion picture starring Adolphe Menjou, Pat O'Brien and directed by Lewis Milestone.

The movie was based on the Broadway play of the same name. The feature film was one of the movies nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture that year. Its screenplay was written by Bartlett Cormack. The movie also starred Mary Brian, George E. Stone, Matt Moore and Edward Everett Horton.

The movie is a "screwball comedy" about an investigative reporter (Pat O'Brien) and his fiancee (Mary Brian), who hope to cash in on a big story involving an escaped accused murderer (Stone) and hide him in a rolltop desk while everybody else tries to find him.

The movie was also adapted into a one-hour episode of CBS radio's Academy Award Theater with O'Brien and Menjou.

This film has been re-envisioned several times. The story was adapted for Howard Hawks's 1940 comedy His Girl Friday. A well-known 1974 version of The Front Page starred Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau.

The Front Page is a 1974 comedy-drama film directed by Billy Wilder and starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as a reporter and editor at a 1920s Chicago newspaper. The film is the third adaptation of the 1928 Broadway comedy play by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Other feature films based on the play are The Front Page (1931), His Girl Friday (1940) and Switching Channels (1988).

Hildy Johnson is the top reporter on a Chicago newspaper during the 1920s. Tired of the whole game he's determined to quit his job to get married. His scheming editor, Walter Burns, has other plans though. It's the day before guilty (but insane) murderer, Earl Williams, is due to go to the gallows and Burns tempts Johnson to stay and write the story. Written by Col Needham

Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape. However, Walter Burns, the Post's editor, is slow to repay Hildy back, hoping that he will stay on the story. Getting a major scoop looks possible when Hildy stumbles onto the bewildered escapee and hides him in a roll-top desk in the press room. Burns shows up to help. Can they keep Williams' whereabouts secret long enough to get the scoop, especially with the Sheriff and other reporters hovering around? Written by Gary Jackson