The Front Page (1974) Quotes with Sound Clips

The Front Page (1974) Quotes with Sound Clips

Hear classic lines from the 1974 film "The Front Page" featuring sound clips from the movie.

Actors: Jack Lemmon (Hildy Johnson), Walter Matthau (Walter Burns), Austin Pendleton (Earl Williams)

4 more actors

, Carol Burnett (Mollie Malloy), Susan Sarandon (Peggy Grant), Vincent Gardenia (Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman), David Wayne (Roy Bensinger)

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1 Go on. You'd hang your own mother for a couple of lousy votes.

2 Well, I don't know how you feel about Wall Street, Doctor, but I mailed this shoebox to JP Morgan with a time bomb in it. And it came back because of insufficient postage. Blew the whole roof off my boarding house.

— Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton)

3 Crying? What did I do wrong? -Nothing. Those were tears of happiness.

— Walter Burns (Walter Matthau), Hildy Johnson (Jack Lemmon)

4 I had a perfectly normal childhood. -I see. You wanted to kill your father and sleep with your mother.

— Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton)

5 We always knock over a few cathouses before election. You know that. To get the family vote.

— Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman (Vincent Gardenia)

6 Be careful crossing streets, ooh, ooh. Don't eat meats, ooh, ooh. Cut out sweets Ooh, ooh. You'll get a pain and ruin your tum-tum.

— Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon)

7 Don't you know what it says on our masthead, right under the eagle? The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth.

— Walter Burns (Walter Matthau)

8 Marry an undertaker, marry a blackjack dealer, marry a pickpocket, but never marry a newspaperman. -That's why I'm making him quit.

— Walter Burns (Walter Matthau), Peggy Grant (Susan Sarandon)

9 Here's your first assignment. I want you to make up a prayer for the city of Chicago. We'll carry it on the editorial page. 'Our Father, who art in Heaven, last year there were 421 unsolved murders...' All set up in boldface Gothic.

— Walter Burns (Walter Matthau)

10 I wrote out a will and I gave it to the warden. I'm leaving everything to you. A pile of books. Maybe you can get something for them second hand. And a picture of my mother, in a silver frame. And a souvenir pillow from Atlantic City.

— Earl Williams (Austin Pendleton)

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