No. But you can reprieve him twice, so that the hanging comes just before the election. Huh? With you and the Mayor running on a law and order ticket. That is nice.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Front Page (1974) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:32:12 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.
Quote context
[...]
- What do you mean? Don't we always refer to you as Honest Pete Hartman?
- Oh, yeah. Yeah. And what about those things you always put around Honest? Journal.
- Why can't you move the hanging from 7:00 to 5:00 so we can make the city edition?
- Oh, come on. You can't hang a fella in his sleep just to please the newspapers. It ain't nice.
- I had nothin' to do with it. That was the Governor.
- How do we know there won't be another reprieve?
- Suppose this Dr. Eggelhofer finds out Williams is insane?
- Come on, boys, you know that's just a formality to shut up those pinko troublemakers.
- Saner.
[...]
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Actors: Jack Lemmon (Hildy Johnson), Walter Matthau (Walter Burns), Austin Pendleton (Earl Williams), Carol Burnett (Mollie Malloy), Susan Sarandon (Peggy Grant), Vincent Gardenia (Sheriff "Honest Pete" Hartman), David Wayne (Roy Bensinger)
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