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: Sony
Cinematographer: Ted Tetzlaff
Producer: George Stevens
Producer: Fred Guiol
Writer: Dale Van Every
Writer: Irwin Shaw
Writer: Sidney Buchman
Writer: Sidney Harmon
DVD: Region Code 99
Audio: English (Original Language), Unknown; English (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); Japanese (Subtitled); Georgian (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
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Movie Review: A Lawless Man and Man Full Of Law
Summary: 5 Stars
A man who escapes from jail just before his sentencing for arson and homicide hides from his pursuers with a beautiful landlady played by Jean Arthur. She has another border, a famous lawyer who fails to see the human side of the law and the consequences for the accused. Discussion about fairness and how guilt is determined make up a considerable amount of the dialogue here but it is hardly worthless. A good movie with a little food for thought.
Summary of The Talk of the Town
A fugitive hides out with an unsuspecting professor & landlady and tries to convince the legal-minded professor that theres a human side to all laws. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/13/2008 Starring: Ronald Colman Jean Arthur Run time: 117 minutes Rating: NrThe 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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