The Talk of the Town
by George Stevens
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Actor: Cary Grant, Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Jean Arthur, Ronald ColmanDirector: George Stevens
Brand: GRANT,CARY
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Korean (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 118 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-02-25
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of The Talk of the Town
Movie Review: the inimitable jean arthur
Summary: 5 Stars
This situation comedy - sometimes mistakenly tagged a screwball comedy - is a delight. Like most stories of the sort, getting out of the situation is not as smoothly handled as the thing itself, so while the first two-thirds of the film are brilliantly funny, the last third seems comparatively earth-bound. At its best, the film is Jean Arthur at her best: lines delivered with perfect timing and pitch, moving (bounding) with the vigour and conviction of a child, one moment winsome, the next wise-cracking and feisty. Cary Grant and Ronald Colman also give great performances in roles a little outside their usual fare. The script is knowing and very witty, and George Stevens' direction is always assurred. If, as seems, the DVD transfer lets this classic down, then what a pity - because new generations should be able to enjoy a fine film like this to the best advantage.
Summary of The Talk of the Town
An escaped accused arsonist hides out at the home of a friend and they work to convince her summer tenant, a judge, of his innocence.Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: UN
Release Date: 25-FEB-2003
Media Type: DVD
The screwball comedy was the definitive genre of the Depression, but as America edged toward war in the early '40s, it suffered some strange and wonderful mutations--none stranger than The Talk of the Town, directed by George Stevens from a script by novelist Irwin Shaw and frequent Capra collaborator (and future blacklist victim) Sidney Buchman. Cary Grant, awkwardly cast, is a small-town political agitator who is framed for the burning of a local factory; he takes refuge in the attic of a country cottage that landlady Jean Arthur is preparing to rent out to a celebrated law professor (silver-tongued Ronald Colman, perhaps the only actor in Hollywood who could make Grant look like a proletarian). Stevens, suspended between his light '30s style (Swing Time) and his heavy postwar manner (A Place in the Sun), struggles to balance a charming, surprisingly suspenseful romantic triangle with the heavy, debating-society tone of the screenplay, which pits Grant, the representative of a compassionate, emotional sense of justice, against the cool, abstract application of the law advocated by Colman. Caught between these two highly verbal characters, Jean Arthur doesn't have much to do but be adorable and provide the occasional quizzical reaction shot--two things she does with exquisite skill. Stevens and Arthur teamed up again one year later for another strange-bedfellows farce, the marvelous The More the Merrier; in 1953 Arthur made her final film appearance in Stevens's Shane. --Dave Kehr
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