The ruthless managing editor of a Chicago newspaper angrily learns his ace reporter plans to leave the paper to get married. While he trains a replacement, all hell breaks loose and a convicted killer escapes from right under the nose of a bumbling sheriff.

GENRE: Comedy
MPAA RATING: PG
RUN TIME: 1h 45m
RELEASE DATE: December 01, 1974
STARRING: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Susan Sarandon, Vincent Gardenia, David Wayne
DIRECTOR(S): Billy Wilder
PRODUCER(S): Paul Monash
WRITER(S): Billy Wilder, I.A.L. Diamond
STUDIO: Universal Pictures