The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 22, 1935Release Date
The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
1h 33m
Running Time
February 22, 1935Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Edward G. Robinson
Arthur Ferguson Jones
Jean Arthur
Miss Wilhelmina Clark
Arthur Hohl
Detective Sergeant Boyle
James Donlan
Detective Sergeant Howe
Arthur Byron
Spencer
Wallace Ford
Healy
Donald Meek
Hoyt
Etienne Girardot
Seaver
J. Farrell MacDonald
Prison Warden (uncredited)
Edward Brophy
'Slugs' Martin
Paul Harvey
'J.G.' Carpenter
Lucille Ball
Bank Employee (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
Miss Gower (uncredited)
John Ford
Director
Joe Sawyer
Mannion's Thug (uncredited)
Jo Swerling
Writer
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Wiki.
The Whole Town's Talking (released in the UK as Passport to Fame) is a 1935 American 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 film The Whole Town's Talking (1926) has no story connection to this film.