Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 105 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
Ruthless Chicago newspaper editor Walter Burns resorts to dubious motives in order to get top reporter Hildy Johnson to cover one more big crime story before retirement.
- chicago
- illinois
- newspaper
- journalist
- marriage proposal
- stress
- father-in-law
- newspaper man
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jack Lemmon
Hildebrand Johnson
Walter Matthau
Walter Burns
Susan Sarandon
Peggy Grant
Vincent Gardenia
Sheriff
- David Wayne — Roy Bensinger
- Allen Garfield — Kruger
- Austin Pendleton — Earl Williams
- Charles Durning — Murphy
- Herb Edelman — Schwartz
- Martin Gabel — Dr. Max J. Eggelhofer
- Harold Gould — Mayor
- Cliff Osmond — Officer Jacobi
- Dick O'Neill — McHugh
- Jon Korkes — Rudy Keppler
- Carol Burnett — Mollie Malloy
- Directed
- Billy Wilder
- Written
- I. A. L. Diamond, Billy Wilder
Production
- Rating
- 7.3 / 10 · 394 ratings
- Studio
- Universal 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.
