The Whole Town's Talking
1935 · directed by John Ford
- Rating
- 83/100
- Hit
- yes
Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.
The Whole Town's Talking (1935), directed by John Ford, rates 83/100 — a hit. See how its director, cast and crew rate across their careers.
Cast
- Edward G. Robinson
- Jean Arthur
- Arthur Hohl
- James Donlan
- Arthur Byron
- Wallace Ford
- Donald Meek
- Etienne Girardot
- Edward Brophy
- Paul Harvey
Crew
- Joseph H. August — Director of Photography
- Viola Lawrence — Editor
- Jo Swerling — Screenplay
- Robert Riskin — Screenplay
More from John Ford
- Stagecoach (1939) — 97/100 · hit
- The Grapes of Wrath (1940) — 96/100 · hit
- The Searchers (1956) — 96/100 · hit
- The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962) — 89/100 · hit
- My Darling Clementine (1946) — 86/100 · hit
- How Green Was My Valley (1941) — 85/100 · hit
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