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Hilarity ensues when a falsely accused fugitive from justice hides at the house of his childhood friend, which she has recently rented to a high-principled law teacher.
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“Is Cary Grant the best thing in The Talk of the Town?”
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- John Chardon TMDB · Jul 20198/10
What is the law? It's a gun pointed at somebody's head. All depends upon which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not. The Talk of the Town is directed by George Stevens and Stevens co-produces with Fred Guiol. It's adapted by Dale Van Every, Irwin Shaw and Sidney Buchman from a story by Sidney Harmon. It stars Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Rex Ingram and Edgar Buchanan. Leopold Dilg (Grant), a radical and political thinking man, is accused of burning down a mill and causing the death of a foreman in the subsequent fire. On trial for his life, he decides to escape from jail and makes his way to the home of his school day friend Nora Shelley (Arthur). However, his timing couldn't be worse, for Nora has taken in a tenant for the summer, a law professor, Michael Lightcap (Colman). Passing him off as the gardener, Nora has to hope that Lightcap doesn't cop on to Dilg being an escaped prisoner. But with both men feeling each other out, and both having designs on Nora, something is going to have to give. Though nominated in seven Academy Award categories, "The Talk of the Town" won none. Perhaps more surprisingly is that of those seven nominations, none were f
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Cast
- Cary GrantLeopold Dilg
- Jean ArthurNora Shelley
- Ronald ColmanMichael Lightcap
- Edgar BuchananSam Yates
- Glenda FarrellRegina Bush
- Charles DingleAndrew Holmes
- Emma DunnMrs. Shelley
- Rex IngramTilney
- Leonid KinskeyJan Pulaski
- Tom TylerClyde Bracken
Crew
- George StevensDirector
- Irwin ShawScreenplay
- Sidney BuchmanScreenplay
- Ted TetzlaffDirector of Photography
- Friedrich HollaenderOriginal Music Composer
- Otto MeyerEditor
- George StevensProducer
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