"George Stevens has adroitly directed the three principals and the fine supporting cast..."
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The Talk of the Town - Review is taken from 'The Films of Cary Grant' by Donald Deschner (1973):
"My gripe with The Talk of the Town is the same complaint that I had against similar serio-comedies: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Meet John Doe. It is only by a sudden fluke in the finale and a quick action on the part of one of the characters that a dreadful miscarriage of justice in this democracy is averted. Along with our debates on the practical vs. the theoretical aspects of law and justice, we are served some witty repartee and some very funny situations. George Stevens has adroitly directed the three principals and the fine supporting cast, including Edgar Buchanan, Glenda Farrell, Rex Ingram. If any one performance stands out, it is that of Mr. Colman. But still, when all the humor and wit are done, there remains the fact that but for Colman's last-minute rescue, Grant would have died at the hands of lynchers; and a mob, even in the cultured state of Massachusetts, is an army of blood thirsty beasts. Just because it is an American mob makes its crime no more serious than a mob of Nazis. If Mr. Stevens could have ended his film before the lynching scene (the whole is much too long anyway), he would have had a first-rate serio-comedy. As it is we have to take the film's warm and human glow with a grain of salt while we lament our own lynching problem in a world that is crying for law and adjustment."
- Philip T Hartung, The Commonweal
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