Hate the dialog in this show!

Agreed, it can be somewhat exhausting. But I can imagine other people saying, "Exhausting, maybe, but also exhilarating, like a roller-coaster ride, IF you can stay with it to the end." It ought to be very suitable for those younger folx who love fast-paced action movies and video games and who can't seem to sit through an entire meal with friends without pulling out their "smart" phone several times to get MORE STIMULATION EVERY MOMENT MORE MORE MORE.

The irony is, several viewings are probably necessary to catch all the verbal byplay, but this was released several decades before VHS and DVD made that easy. In 1940 I guess you'd just have to sit there in the theater for a couple more showings-- back then, they would LET you do that, so I'm told.

I had to laugh when you mentioned closed captions. Never thought to check for those when this movie plays on GetTV. How could complete and accurate captions even be possible in scenes like those in the newsroom where there are eight or ten people all talking? The words would be flying by too fast to read! If they tried to do it by using an automated voice-to-text-translation program, as many TV shows now do, the computer would probably blow a fuse trying to keep up.

Meanwhile, every time I watch the action on TV I notice more funny stuff. Like the fractured interplay between the main players and the guy trying to deliver the governor's reprieve order-- especially the second time right near the end. If these guys were really improvising a lot of this, then they're very good at it.

To this day this movie is FAST. You might be better off with the Billy Wilder version of THE FRONT PAGE with Lemmon & Matthau. It's much, much slower in pacing and execution and might be a better fit.

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If you have done any research on this film you would understand that it was made on purpose this way. It was a new experiment that I believe really makes the movie.

I also want to add that the tempo is part of the plot; the manic nature of print newspapers on deadlines. Also, the non-news media personnel talk this way to portray the urgency of a death row inmate whose time is just about up. The dialogue stands in for the tick-tick-tick of the clock.

I always thought that this was one of the cleverest movies ever made.