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The Whole Town's Talking 1935

John Ford

Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, James Donlan, Arthur Byron

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Camel's Bell 4 months ago

Scott Hume over 3 years ago

The Whole Town's Talking (released in the UK as Passport to Fame) is a 1935 comedy film starring Edward G. Robinson as a law-abiding man who bears a striking resemblance to a killer, with Jean Arthur as his love interest. It was directed by John Ford from a screenplay by Jo Swerling and Robert Riskin based on a story by W.R. Burnett originally published in Collier's in August 1932. Burnett was also the author of the source material for Robinson's screen break-through, Little Caesar. The story was remade in 1998 as the Bollywood film Duplicate. Arthur Ferguson Jones (Edward G. Robinson) and Wilhelmina Clark (Jean Arthur) work at the same accounting firm. Jones turns out to look exactly like the notorious bank robber "Killer" Mannion (also Robinson) and is apprehended by the police. After his true identity is confirmed, the district attorney gives Jones a letter identifying him, so that he can avoid the same trouble in future. Jones becomes a local celebrity and, at the behest of his...