Film

The Whole Town's Talking

1935 · 1h 33m · Comedy · Crime

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IMDb

7.3

Rotten Tomatoes

100%

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.

Edward G. Robinson

Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion

Jean Arthur

Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark

Arthur Hohl

Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle

James Donlan

Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe

Arthur Byron

Spencer

Wallace Ford

Healy

Donald Meek

Hoyt

Etienne Girardot

Seaver

Edward Brophy

'Slugs' Martin

Paul Harvey

'J.G.' Carpenter

J. Farrell MacDonald

Prison Warden (uncredited)

Ralph Remley

Sam Dixon

Joe Sawyer

Mannion's Thug (uncredited)

Lucille Ball

Bank Employee (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Miss Gower (uncredited)

Robert Stanley

Reporter (uncredited)

• John FordDirector · Producer
• Robert RiskinScreenplay
• Jo SwerlingScreenplay
• W.R. BurnettStory
• Lester CowanProducer
• Joseph H. AugustDirector of Photography
• Viola LawrenceEditor

The Whole Town's Talking 1935 John Ford Film, Edward G Robinson

Release date

February 22, 1935

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

1h 33m

Genres

Comedy, Crime

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