The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Review: The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Director: John Ford

Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, James Donlan, Arthur Byron,

Edward G. Robinson
Edward G. Robinson
Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur
Arthur Hohl
Arthur Hohl
James Donlan
James Donlan
Arthur Byron
Arthur Byron

Plot: Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

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<i>John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958</i>: Indicator Blu-ray

John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958: Indicator Blu-ray

Indicator’s four-disk John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958 box set raises some interesting questions about the nature of auteurism and how the ways in which a filmmaker comes to be defined influence how different films are viewed. Two of the […]

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