The Whole Town's Talking
1935 · 95 min
Directed by John Ford. Written by Jo Swerling, Robert Riskin. Starring Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Arthur Hohl, James Donlan.
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.
Critics 100% · audiences 76%