“The Talk of the Town” Review

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.

I bought a dvd of this silly movie in the hopes that there was going to be some good Glenda Farrell content and while she’s great in her two scenes, I do wish there was more. She’s not the main character by any stretch, that’s goes to the two leading men (Cary Grant / Ronald Colman) and Jean Arthur. It’s one of the first roles that I’ve seen Grant in where he’s not unambiguously a good guy doing a good thing. There was a while there that I actually suspected that he really was guilty of burning down the mill.

There’s a few really well done scenes with misdirection and madcap shenanigans that were all the tradition of the time, but never done in a way that felt stupid or condescending.

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