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The Whole Town's Talking (1935) | User Rating
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Running Time
1 hour, 33 minutes
Country USA
Studio Columbia Pictures
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Other Titles
• The Whole Town's Talking
• Die Ganze Stadt spricht davon (1935)
• Passport to Fame (1935)
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Genre: Crime, Comedy, Mistaken Identity, Kidnapping, Gangsters, Murder, Role-switching, Detectives, Police, Deception, Prison, Farce
Plot: Although John Ford's films often included comic elements, he made few that were pure comedies--THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING, starring Edward G. Robinson as obsequious hardware-store clerk Arthur Jones, is one of them. A man of almost appallingly regular habits, Arthur hasn't been late for work in years. Although he has a long-standing crush on his lively coworker Wilhelmina "Bill" Clark (Jean Arthur), he's unable to tell her how he feels. While he's having lunch one day, he's arrested by police who mistake him for mob boss Killer Manion. After his employer clears him, the police give Arthur a pass identifying him as the non-Killer. As a gimmick, a newspaper hires the clerk to write a series of articles speculating about his unruly doppelgänger. The gangster reads the piece, learns about the pass, and realizes how convenient such a document could be. He pays the terrified Arthur a visit, extracting the pass and insisting the newspaper series be devoted to his past exploits before departing for a night of the usual mayhem. Robinson's career received a huge boost from this deliciously humorous film, which toys amusingly with his gangster iconography. Not all is comic, however, as Ford filters the Victorian Jekyll-and-Hyde notion of a split self into his narrative to suggest Jones's
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| Directed by |
John Ford
The Searchers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Quiet Man |
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| Written by |
| Robert Riskin
Mr. Deeds, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town |
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| Cast |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Shane, You Can't Take It with You | Arthur Hohl
The Hunchback of Notre Dame, The Yearling, Footlight Parade | Arthur Byron
The Mummy, The Prisoner of Zenda, 20,000 Years in Sing Sing | | Donald Meek
Stagecoach, You Can't Take It with You, Top Hat | |
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