The Talk of the Town 1942 123movies

Watch: The Talk of the Town 1942 123movies, Full Movie Online – In suburban Lochester, New England, three people end up living together in high school teacher Nora Shelley’s rental house. The first is her new tenant, renowned Harvard law professor Michael Lightcap, who has rented the house for the summer while he writes his new book. The second is Nora herself. Despite having an auspicious first meeting, Lightcap hires Nora to be his live-in cook and secretary for a week until his manservant Tilney arrives. The third is Joseph, the property’s gardener, who is currently laid up with a sprained ankle. In reality, Joseph is Nora’s childhood friend Leopold Dilg, who has just escaped from prison. Leopold was being tried for the arson of the factory where he worked, and for murder for the death of the factory foreman Clyde Bracken, whose body was never recovered but who is assumed to have died in the fire. Despite the danger to herself, Nora hides Leopold since she believes his story that although he, as an activist, did speak out about the dangerous conditions at the factory, he did not set the fire, which he assumes was done by the factory’s owner, Andrew Holmes, to collect the insurance money, all the while having Leopold as a scapegoat. Nora campaigned to get the job with Lightcap if only to be able to better hide Leopold in the house. Leopold escaped if only because he knew he would not get a fair trial due to the rabble rousing being conducted by Holmes against him. Lightcap and who he knows as Joseph end up getting along famously, although activist Leopold believes Lightcap’s view of the law is too clinical for him truly to be a great lawyer or great judge, those thoughts arising if only because Nora and Leopold learn clandestinely that Lightcap is being appointed to the Supreme Court. Nora, Leopold and Leopold’s lawyer, Sam Yates, try to get Lightcap involved in helping Leopold by showing him that Leopold indeed will not get a fair trial. In the process, Lightcap may in turn show Leopold and Nora that his current way of thinking has much merit..
Plot: When the Holmes Woolen Mill burns down, political activist Leopold Dilg is jailed for arson and accidental murder. Escaping, Leopold hides out in the home of his childhood sweetheart Nora Shelley… which she has just rented to unsuspecting law professor Michael Lightcap.
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This is a good movie
Talk of the Town is a good movie! It is well written with witty and interesting, sometimes even surprising dialogue. It is well directed and well played. Even the score is really good (I am not sure if both John Williams and Frederick Hollander borrowed or it was just Williams who borrowed form Hollander for Star Wars). I grew fond of Roland Coleman through this movie, he is simply debonair. Sure, the preaching toward the end of the movie is a bit thick, but it is in character and should you listen closely you would find that the message is as relevant today as then. And about the love triangle plot It keeps you guessing till the last moment (only one other movie successfully does the same: Casablanca). Talk of the Town is an intelligent and endearing mix of comedy and drama, it does not use comedy only for the introduction but keeps it up, in parallel to the drama, well through the movie; in that it is remarkable. To say the least it did not deserve to be forgotten, for it does what movies do best: give you a good time.

Shaw Thing
Irwin Shaw was highly accomplished writer in most genres; only John O’Hara equalled/eclipsed him as a novelist and writer of the finest short stories in 20th century America. Over the years several stories (The Girls In Their Summer Dresses, Tip On A Dead Jockey, In The French Style) and novels (The Young Lions, Two Weeks In Another Town) by Shaw would reach the screen and in addition he received Screenplay credit on film adaptations of other writers (Fire Down Below, Act Of Love) and if his masterpiece was his own adaptation of two of his finest stories – A Year To Learn The Language and In The French Style -The Talk Of The Town was not far behind. It’s the kind of thing that used to epitomise Hollywood movies; civilized, sophisticated people, good looking, urbane, feeling no need to disfigure themselves via the application of tattoos, studs, safety pins, happy to utilise well-modulated voices not to whine but to flip deceptively light dialogue at each other, keeping it in the air like a juggler’s clubs and in passing make the odd moral/ethical comment on society. Here we have three of the finest exponents of the Art of Screen Acting – Jean Arthur, Ronald Coleman and Cary Grant – at the top of their game revelling in the words/situations into which Shaw and his co-writer thrust them. Casting Directors knowing nothing about the character but registering only the name Leopold Dilg would not immediately think of Cary Grant but the part of anarchist/scapegoat fits him like a glove, as does Supreme Court Judge in waiting Lightcap Ronald Coleman. If it seems a tad unlikely that cracker lawyer Edgar Buchanan was once a classmate of the urbane Ronald Coleman it needn’t detain us long. For a film that is dialogue heavy it gets off to a flying start with a couple of minutes of montage in which the whole premise – a fire at a mill, death of at least one man, ready-made scapegoat – is laid out like a red carpet at Cannes. Thereafter the three principals pick up the ball and run with it (The Eighty Yard Run was, of course, another classic short story by Irwin Shaw). If you like your soufflé’ laced with buckshot then this is for you. Outstanding.

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 58 min (118 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated Approved
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director George Stevens
Writer Irwin Shaw, Sidney Buchman, Dale Van Every
Actors Cary Grant, Jean Arthur, Ronald Colman
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 7 Oscars. 7 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono (Western Electric Mirrophonic Recording)
Aspect Ratio 1.37 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory N/A
Film Length 3,249.47 m
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm