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The Talk of the Town

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The Talk of the Town
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NR,1hr 58min
Genre:
Comedy
Released:
January 1, 1942
Director:
George Stevens
Distributor:
Columbia TriStar
Starring:
Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman  ...more
Synopsis: George Stevens' Talk of the Town is a quick-witted comedy driven by wonderful performances by Cary Grant, Ronald Colman and Jean Arthur. Michael Lightcap (Colman) is a stuffy law professor in line to a Supreme Court appointment, who is spending the summer at the house of schoolteacher Nora Shelley (Arthur). But Lightcap is not the only guest at the house. Shelley has also let Leopold Dilg (Grant)--a man who had recently escaped from prison, where he was serving a sentence for false accusations of ... Full Synopsis
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Lucia Bozzola, AMG Review
Part debate about the American legal system, part sophisticated romantic comedy, George Stevens's The Talk of the Town (1942) portrays a legally loaded love triangle between a wrongly accused fugitive, a local New England schoolteacher and a cloistered law professor. With Cary Grant as the accused Leopold, Jean Arthur as the teacher Nora and Ronald Colman as the jurist Lightcap, Stevens and screenwriters ... Full Review
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Cary Grant
Leopold Dilg
Jean Arthur
Nora Shelley
Ronald Colman
Michael Lightcap
Edgar Buchanan
Sam Yates
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