Summary: Hildy Johnson, newspaper reporter, is engaged to Peggy Grant and planning to move to New York for a higher paying advertising job. The court press room is full of lame reporters who invent stories as much as write them. All are waiting to cover the hanging of Earl Williams. When Williams escapes from the inept Sheriff, Hildy seizes the opportunity by using his $260 honeymoon money to payoff an insider and get the scoop on the escape... (imdb)

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Genre: Comedy

Country: USA

Directed By: Lewis Milestone

Written By: Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur

Starring: Pat O'Brien, Adolphe Menjou, Walter Catlett, Edward Everett Horton, Mary Brian, George E. Stone

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