The Whole Town's Talking (1935)

Comedy Crime Drama

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.

Updated May 19 2020

Releases:

US -

1935-02-21

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Keywords:

mistaken identity screwball comedy milquetoast

FACTS

Runtime: 93 mins Rating: 7.0

Cast

Joe Sawyer

Mannion's Thug (uncredited)

J. Farrell MacDonald

Prison Warden (uncredited)

Edward G. Robinson

Arthur Ferguson 'Jonesy' Jones / 'Killer' Mannion

Donald Meek

Hoyt

Arthur Hohl

Det. Sgt. Michael F. Boyle

Jean Arthur

Wilhelmina 'Bill' Clark

Edward Brophy

'Slugs' Martin

Paul Harvey

Smiley Watson