Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau team for this Billy Wilder remake of the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur classic about newsmen covering an execution in 1929 Chicago. Mollie: Carol Burnett. Peggy: Susan Sarandon. Sheriff: Vincent Gardenia. Bensinger: David Wayne. Williams: Austin Pendleton. Kruger: Allen Garfield. Murphy: Charles Durning. Schwartz: Herbert Edelman. Mayor: Harold Gould.