When Hughes released the movie, he put his and Milestone’s names on the opening card, before the title.
It also augmented Lewis Milestone’s stature as a director and Howard Hughes’s as a producer. It brought a crackling comic awareness of American corruption into popular culture, and it made rapid-fire, overlapping dialogue fashionable, turning Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur into the hottest writing team around, on the Great White Way or in Tinseltown. It became famous, sometimes infamous, for its frankness about sleazy backroom politics and reckless, sensationalistic newspapers, and for its suggestive patter and profanity. A critical sensation and a runaway hit in its original theatrical form in 1928, the play proved even more of a trendsetter when it first hit the screen in 1931. T he Front Page is the zestiest and most influential movie you’ve never seen.
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