The Whole Town's Talking

Feb 22, 1935

1h 33m

★ 6.8

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Overview

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.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Columbia Pictures

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Cast

Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion

Edward G. Robinson

Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark

Jean Arthur

Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle

Arthur Hohl

Detective Sergeant Patrick J. Howe

James Donlan

Spencer

Arthur Byron

Healy

Wallace Ford

Hoyt

Donald Meek

Seaver

Etienne Girardot

'Slugs' Martin

Edward Brophy

'J.G.' Carpenter

Paul Harvey

Prison Warden (uncredited)

J. Farrell MacDonald

Sam Dixon

Ralph Remley

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