Cary Grant, Charles Dingle, Don Beddoe

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Unrated, 119 min.

Directed by: George Stevens

Release Date: January 1, 1942

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DVD Release Date: February 25, 2003

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  • June 20, 2008
    Wonderfully funny even if it does have a very serious point. The three leads do an absolutely brilliant job in conveying a growing relationship and are perhaps one of the only believable and functional threesomes in cinema. The script doesn't drag itself down by having a rivalry ...( read more)breakout between the two males, making this very fresh. The ending goes on a bit even after the point has been made. Awesomely enjoyable stuff.
  • December 31, 2007
    The triangle at the heart of this Capraesque film is contrived, Cary Grant is badly miscast and the script too often feels like a vehicle for soapbox sermonising. Despite these problems "Talk of the Town" manages to be likeable and entertaining, due in no small part to the wonder...( read more)ful performances of Ronald Colman and Jean Arthur.
  • December 16, 2007
    a pretty used up plotline... such as escaped man from jail who is actually innocent. seen a few of them eh? well me too! it was alright for what it was and the funny moments are what saved this. cary grant carried himself in the usual manner and jean arthur was pretty good in it ...( read more)too! it does seem a bit corny now though. sometimes you get movies that don't age and the problem with this is that it did age
  • November 1, 2009
    A delightful comedy drama, what a wonderful cast. Jean Arthur is terrific. Well written, very fast pace, good supporting cast. It's very entertaining.
  • September 10, 2009
    Professor Michael Lighcapt is a man with a dilemma. He's in Lorchester for some quiet time, but things are never what you might expect. The same night as his arrival, a man accused of murder and arsen, Leopold Dilg, hides in the same house with the complicity of houseowners daug...( read more)hter. After Lightcap finds out about Dilg, he must make a choise: hand over Dilg to the police, even though he knows Dilg is innocent, or hide him so that he can prove his innocence. The latter might have consequence because the professor just been named a member of the Supreme Court.
    "The talk of the town" begins with an dark atmosphere , but then quickly shifs into a more comic one. The best thing in this movie is the dialog that's just brililant. the characters are interesting too, we are witnessing Lightcaps change from uptight and solitary due mostly to miss Nora Shelly. Jane Arthurs characters is my favourite , shes not just a pretty face, she has a sharp mind and a sharp tongue, shes funny and charming . Cary Grant (Dilg ) is as always elegant, smart and witty.
    Some things I didn't like : I wondered why the professor assistant crys when Lightcap takes his beard of? it was a litlle embarrassing, but maybe he had a contribution to the beards growth, hmm...:)
    And we are told that Dilg has radical opinions, which radical opinions?
    We never find out, he keeps confrunting the professor about the law and order, but he doesn't came with any argument to sustain a point. I guess that remains another life mistery... I get the point of the movie , the two men are the personification of two things : written law and the applied one, but it could have been so much better...
    but, all in all, a good movie, very amusing, very enjoyable.
  • December 22, 2008
    No thankyou - Not interested.
  • December 10, 2008
    no thanks not my kinda thing
  • November 1, 2008
    a solidly funny screwball comedy.
  • July 3, 2008
    want to see this because it was nominated for best picture at the oscars
  • December 27, 2007
    A strange sort of comedy (kind of dark, really) but worth seeing.

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