The Talk of the Town
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 25, 2003
- Originally Released: 1942
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Cary Grant | |
Performer: | Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Charles Dingle, Emma Dunn & Rex Ingram | |
Directed by | George Stevens | |
Edited by | Otto Meyer | |
Screenwriting by | Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman & Sidney Harmon | |
Composition by | Friedrich Hollaender | |
Art Direction by | Lionel Banks | |
Produced by | George Stevens | |
Director of Photography: | Ted Tetzlaff |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.75/5 --
Part romantic triangle, part Capra-esque hokum, all coast on star power.
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Film-Forward.com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
It may be off beam in its philosophy, but its quality of humor is not strained.
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New York Times
Effective, if peculiar, mixture of screwball comedy and political moralising.
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Film4
An attractive serio-comic tale of civic corruption.
Time Out
Rating: 4.5/5 --
In addition to its status as one of the great screen comedies, the film is a treasure trove of homosexual undercurrents, many of which aren't all that disguised.
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Goatdog's Movies
The Talk of the Town (1942) is a classic romantic comedy/drama of the 1940s from producer/director George Stevens and Columbia Pictures.
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AMC Filmsite
Rating: 5/5 --
Brilliantly directed, acted, scripted thought-provoking comedy
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
Product Description:
George Stevens' last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg, a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the town of Sweetbrook. Believing that he'll be executed if he remains in jail, he escapes and breaks into a cottage that schoolteacher Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur) is preparing for Professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Coleman), the dean of a law school. She allows Grant to stay in the attic, without alerting the professor. The next day, a reporter arrives to question Lightcap about Dilg's case, along with Sam Yates (Edgar Buchanan), Dilg's lawyer, who comes at Nora's behest. Since Yates and Lightcap know each other from law school, Yates asks Lightcap's help in defending his client, who he claims to have been framed. The professor refuses, intent on writing a legal treatise. Before Yates leaves, he persuades Nora to house Dilg, who she introduces to Lightcap as a gardener. Before long, the professor begins to realize that the gardener is well versed in the intricacies and inequities of the U.S. legal system. Stevens' entertaining romantic triangle, in which the atmosphere of legal debate is leavened by wit, and low comedy, is brilliantly played by all, especially an atypically dark and impulsive Grant. The director's characteristically deft touch with comic business is evident throughout the film.
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- Sales Rank: 12,077
- UPC: 043396078093
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