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Plot: Charles MacArthur and Ben Hecht's classic newspaper comedy--about a conniving editor who talks his star reporter out of getting married long enough to cover a big story--has survived lesser adaptation...( read more read more... )s than this one. (Ever see Switching Channels?) But few have been more disappointing. Billy Wilder teamed Walter Matthau (as the unscrupulous editor) and Jack Lemmon (as the fast-talking reporter), who try to get the scoop on everyone else in the story of a convicted killer who escapes on his way to the electric chair. But Matthau and Lemmon, as good as they are, succumb to the temptation to do shtick--and Carol Burnett shows up in a florid, unfunny performance as a hooker. An attempt to bottle the same lightning that struck with The Sting--but Wilder, Lemmon, and Matthau just can't do it. --Marshall Fine

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  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    March 30, 2008
    wat a beauty!!!! wilder jst knows how to get the best out of those guys....walter and lemmon are sensational...lemmon 2 me was the funier this time round but hey they r both brilliant!!! also the screenplay wilder and diamond is superb!!! the timing and pace of this fiml is brilliant...it jst keeps smakn one at ya!!! great stuff!!!
  • 4.0 Stars
    MCT:
    November 6, 2007
    Matthau and Lemmon = The ultimate comedy couple! It does'nt have an easy moment during the whole picture and you get really fascinated by Billy Wilder's direction and the two marvellous actors performances.
  • 4.5 Stars
    MCT:
    June 7, 2007
    A collection of the best duets in raging seventies! Just imagine that I'm the cop and ... Bang Bang! It will shut you down, you will hit the ground, when watching this lovely adaptation of Ben Hecht's play! A mixture of classic Wilder's and modern Allen's!
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    February 3, 2007
    I confess, I've actually only seen the last half of this movie, but I found it amusing and enjoyable.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 24, 2006
    Disappointing remake of His Girl Friday kept watchable by the comic talents of one of the best double acts in the business.
  • 5.0 Stars
    MCT:
    December 12, 2006
    Funniest and finest comedy ever! Wilder's bitterness about press and power, Lemmon and Matthau's ability in dominating the scene, the story entertaining 100%, the mixture is perfectly shaken!
  • 2.5 Stars
    MCT:
    October 13, 2006
    Never have I been so disappointed in such a dream collaboration in my life. Stick with "His Girl Friday".
  • 3.5 Stars
    MCT:
    August 21, 2006
    The comic pair of Lemmon and Matthau resume their tried-and-true roles of the grumpy chauvinist and the prissy rich man. One would feel this would be a tired match, but the actors pull it off in this good comedy about a journalist wanting to quit his profession and the news-hungry boss that stops at nothing to keep him. Some great Cold War-era overtones.
  • 3.0 Stars
    MCT:
    June 3, 2006
    This movie is based on the same play His Girl Friday is based on, and was also the first Lemmon-Matthau movie I'd ever seen. I didn't like His Girl Friday much the first time I watched it three years ago but this wasn't at all bad, so I now wonder if I'd like the first movie better. Desafortunademente, I have not much to say about this movie except that it was a fairly decent comedy, neither brilliant nor horrendous.

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  • Rated: (PG)
  • Directed by: Billy Wilder
  • Genres: Classics, Comedy
  • Released: December 17, 1974
  • DVD Released: June 15, 1998

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