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A condemned murderer, eager to prove his innocence, stages a spectacular escape from prison. Injured in the breakout he hides out at a friend's house, disguised as the gardener. His only chance rests with a Supreme Court candidate who is renting the house for the summer. But all hopes are dashed when he refuses to help.

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ProducerGeorge Stevens

EAN5035822118331

eBay Product ID (ePID)3959779

Product Key Features

ActorDon Beddoe, Leonid Kinskey, Cary Grant, Tom Tyler, Emma Dunn, Jean Arthur, Glenda Farrell, Rex Ingram, Ronald Coleman, Edgar Buchanan, Charles Dingle

Film/TV TitleThe Talk of the Town

DirectorGeorge Stevens

LanguageEnglish

Subtitle LanguageArabic\Czech\Danish\Dutch\English\Finnish\French\German\Greek\Hebrew\Hindi\Hungarian\Italian\Norwegian\Polish\Portuguese\Spanish\Swedish\Turkish

Run Time113 Mins

Aspect Ratio1.33 Full Screen

FormatDVD

Release Year2003

FeaturesBlack & White, Scene Access\Interactive Features, With Subtitles

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

CertificateU

ComposerFrederick Hollander

Production DesignerRudolph Sternad

Additional InformationGeorge Stevens' last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg, a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the town of Sweetbrook. Believing that he'll be executed if he remains in jail, he escapes and breaks into a cottage that schoolteacher Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur) is preparing for Professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Coleman), the dean of a law school. She allows Grant to stay in the attic, without alerting the professor. The next day, a reporter arrives to question Lightcap about Dilg's case, along with Sam Yates (Edgar Buchanan), Dilg's lawyer, who comes at Nora's behest. Since Yates and Lightcap know each other from law school, Yates asks Lightcap's help in defending his client, who he claims to have been framed. The professor refuses, intent on writing a legal treatise. Before Yates leaves, he persuades Nora to house Dilg, who she introduces to Lightcap as a gardener. Before long, the professor begins to realize that the gardener is well versed in the intricacies and inequities of the U.S. legal system. Stevens' entertaining romantic triangle, in which the atmosphere of legal debate is leavened by wit, and low comedy, is brilliantly played by all, especially an atypically dark and impulsive Grant. The director's characteristically deft touch with comic business is evident throughout the film.

Art DirectorLionel Banks

ScreenwriterSidney Harmon, Sidney Buchman, Irwin Shaw

Sound sourceMono

Format DescriptionDVD 5

Movie/TV TitleThe Talk Of The Town

EditorOtto Meyer

Director of PhotographyTed Tetzlaff