Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 92 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Walter Burns is an irresistibly conniving newspaper publisher desperate to woo back his paper’s star reporter, who also happens to be his estranged wife. She’s threatening to quit and settle down with a new beau, but, as Walter knows, she has a weakness: she can’t resist a juicy scoop.
- prison
- journalist
- suicide
- journalism
- based on play or musical
- wager
- fugitive
- black and white
- screwball comedy
- corrupt politician
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Cary Grant
Walter Burns
Rosalind Russell
Hildy Johnson
Ralph Bellamy
Bruce Baldwin
Gene Lockhart
Sheriff Hartwell
- Porter Hall — Murphy
- Ernest Truex — Bensinger
- Cliff Edwards — Endicott
- Clarence Kolb — Mayor
- Roscoe Karns — McCue
- Frank Jenks — Wilson
- Regis Toomey — Sanders
- Abner Biberman — Louie
- Frank Orth — Duffy
- John Qualen — Earl Williams
- Helen Mack — Mollie Malloy
- Directed
- Howard Hawks
- Written
- Ben Hecht, Charles Lederer
Production
- Rating
- 7.4 / 10 · 950 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
