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The Talk of the Town is a 1942 American comedy-drama film directed by George Stevens and starring Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, and Ronald Colman, with a supporting cast featuring Edgar Buchanan and Glenda Farrell.
The Talk of the Town: Directed by George Stevens. With Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman, Edgar Buchanan. An escaped prisoner has to prove his innocence to a stuffy law professor with the help of a spirited school teacher.
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- Comedy, Drama, Romance
- George Stevens
- 1942-08-20
The Talk of the Town sparked new life into Colman's fairly dormant career. Following the success of The Talk of the Town, Colman starred in Random Harvest (1942), which earned him renewed critical acclaim and his third Oscar nomination.
Leopold Dilg (Cary Grant), who was wrongfully convicted of arson, manages to escape from prison. While on the lam, he finds the home of Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur), an old friend from school for ...
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- Cary Grant
- George Stevens
- Comedy
The Talk of the Town. 1942 · 1 hr 58 min. TV-PG. Comedy · Drama · Romance. Escaping jail after being pinned for a deadly factory fire, Grant hides out in a house unknowingly being rented by a future supreme court judge.
- George Stevens
- January 1, 1942
- 117 min
Screen comedy so gay… drama so thrilling… love so exciting, it will be the talk of YOUR town! Wrongfully jailed for arson, political activist Leopold Dilg escapes and takes refuge at the house of his childhood friend, Nora, unaware that she has recently rented it to a high-principled lawyer.
The Talk of the Town (1942) is a classic romantic comedy/drama of the 1940s from producer/director George Stevens and Columbia Pictures. This intelligent film about romance and justice, a blend of the serious and lighthearted, exemplified the trend toward 'social themed' films that arose in the 40s, in such films as How Green Was My Valley ...
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