Released April 4, 1931: (running time 1 hour and 40 minutes) A newspaper reporter wants to get married and quit his newspaper job, but a hot story and a scheming editor keep him on a crime story that gets in the way of his marriage plans.
Produced by Howard Hughesand Lewis Milestone
Directed by Lewis Milestone
Written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur
The Actors: Adolphe Menjou(Walter Burns, newspaper editor), Pat O'Brien (Hildy Johnson newspaper reporter), Mary Brian (Peggy Grant), Edward Everett Horton (Roy V. Bensinger, newspaper reporter), Walter Catlett(Jimmy Murphy, newspaper reporter), George E. Stone (Earl Williams, condemned man), Mae Clarke (Molly Malloy, prostitute), Slim Summerville(Irving Pincus, the Governor's messenger), Matt Moore (Ernie Kruger, newspaper reporter), Frank McHugh (Mac, newspaper reporter), Clarence Wilson(Sheriff Peter B. 'Pinky' Hartman), Fred Howard(Schwartz, newspaper reporter), Phil Tead (Wilson, newspaper reporter), Eugene Strong (Endicott, newspapwer reporter), Spencer Charters(Woodenshoes, policeman), Maurice Black (Diamond Louie), Effie Ellsler (Mrs. Grant), Dorothea Wolbert (Jenny, scrub lady), James Gordon (Fred the mayor), Richard Alexander(Jacobi), James Donlan(reporter), Francis Ford (Carl, detective), Sol Gorss(policeman), Herman J. Mankiewicz (unknown), Lewis Milestone (unknown), Gustav von Seyffertitz (Professor Max J. Engelhoffer), Dot Farley(madame), Max Hoffman Jr.(searcher at speakeasy door), George Magrill (policeman)
