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The Talk of the Town

The Talk of the Town

List Price: $29.95
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Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Great Stars, Great movie!
Review: This movie includes three of my very favourite movie stars, Cary Grant, Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman.

The basic story is that Cary Grant is an innocent prisoner who escapes from prison. He hides out at his friends house (Jean Arthur) because he has been hurt from his escape. He then has to hide from Ronald Colman who is renting the house for the summer. Colman is a Supreme Court candidate. Cary wants to prove his innocence, but instead of hiding away from Colman forever, he pretends he is the gardener. I wont give away the rest.

It really is a fantastic movie. One of the best. The acting is brilliant and with three top stars like these, you couldnt ask for much more. But you do get more! Its directed by one of the greatest, George Stevens.

The print on this DVD is nice too and it has very clear sound throughout the film.

A perfect combination of stars here, and a really great story. Well directed, well written, and one you can watch over and over again.

Highly recommended to anybody who has any taste in movies at all. Brilliant!

PLEASE NOTE: Owner of the Region 2 DVD. However, this one appears to be no different.

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: GREAT MOVIE!!!
Review: This movie is EXCELLENT! It has a little bit of mystery, adventure and A LOT of comedy all wrapped up in one, and is perfect for anyone who is Cary Grant fan. Grant stars as an escaped convict and hides in Jean Arthur's house...but then trouble starts to stir when Gorge Stevens comes to the house to relax on a nice vacation. This is definitely a movie for anyone...I highly reccommend it!

Rating: 5 stars
Summary: Three-ring circus
Review: With Cary Grant playing Leopold Dilg, a man falsely accused of arson, Jean Arthur playing the high school teacher hiding him out in her attic, and Ronald Colman as a college professor and the unaware current tenant of Arthur's charming little house who thinks that Grant is Arthur's gardener, this movie certainly is a three-ring circus!While Nora Shelly(Arthur)and her "gardener" are trying to persuade Michael Lightcap(Colman)of Dilg's innocence the police catch on to the fact that Dilg actually is hidng in her house and come to arrest him. Meanwhile Nora and Professor Lightcap try to protect him and take him to Washington-because Colman has been elected to a seat on the supreme court bench- and on the way there, run in to the man Grant was accused of murdering! As if things weren't
complicated enough already something else they hadn't bargained on is revealed-in the meantime both men have fallen in love with Nora! Well,when at last the truth is revealed and everything settles back down to normal Nora gets her man!

Rating: 4 stars
Summary: good movie, bad presentation
Review: You need to know a few things before buying the DVD of this very entertaining George Stevens comedy. One, it's not really a 'screwball' comedy, so if you're expecting outrageous hijinks like Bringing Up Baby, or The Awful Truth you might be a little disappointed. In tone it's very much in line with the films of Frank Capra or George Steven's own The More the Merrier, another great film starring the seriously under appreciated Jean Arthur. The second thing you should know, is that Columbia aka Sony has done very little to warrant the $... list price for the DVD. Picture quality is poor and they have the nerve to charge this much money for a pan and scan version of a 60 yr old film with no extras. It's really disgraceful and disrespectful of Sony to do this to film lovers... (though the list price is five dollars less than Talk of the Town, it's still too much for a great film that's desperately in need of restoration) So in short, a very entertaining film in a very cheesy presentation.


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