George Stevens' last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg, a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the town of Sweetbrook. Believing that he'll be executed if he remains in jail, he .. Read more
| Starring | Cary Grant, Ronald Coleman, Edgar Buchanan, Jean Arthur |
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| Director | George Stevens |
| Genres | Comedy, Thriller |
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George Stevens' last film with Cary Grant represents yet another hit in his string of classic comedies. Grant stars as Leopold Dilg, a political activist who is wrongly indicted for arson and murder when a factory worker dies in a mill fire in the town of Sweetbrook. Believing that he'll be executed if he remains in jail, he escapes and breaks into a cottage that schoolteacher Nora Shelley (Jean Arthur) is preparing for Professor Michael Lightcap (Ronald Coleman), the dean of a law school. She allows Grant to stay in the attic, without alerting the professor. The next day, a reporter arrives to question Lightcap about Dilg's case, along with Sam Yates (Edgar Buchanan), Dilg's lawyer, who comes at Nora's behest. Since Yates and Lightcap know each other from law school, Yates asks Lightcap's help in defending his client, who he claims to have been framed. The professor refuses, intent on writing a legal treatise. Before Yates leaves, he persuades Nora to house Dilg, who she introduces to Lightcap as a gardener. Before long, the professor begins to realize that the gardener is well versed in the intricacies and inequities of the U.S. legal system. Stevens' entertaining romantic triangle, in which the atmosphere of legal debate is leavened by wit, and low comedy, is brilliantly played by all, especially an atypically dark and impulsive Grant. The director's characteristically deft touch with comic business is evident throughout the film.
| Starring | Cary Grant, Ronald Coleman, Edgar Buchanan, Jean Arthur, Glenda Farrell, Charles Dingle, Emma Dunn, Rex Ingram, Leonid Kinskey, Tom Tyler, Don Beddoe |
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| Director | George Stevens |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 53 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Comedy, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Subtitles | DVD: Arabic, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish |
| Released | Production year: 1942 To Rent: DVD: 10 Mar 2003 |
An attractive serio-comic tale of civic corruption, with Grant as a factory worker on the run from a trumped-up charge... read more on Time Out
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Cary on form!
This is a must for any Cary Grant lover. A good story line and snappy script sees Cary on good form in this film. Playing a wrongly convicted murderer, hiding ... read more »
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Talk of the Town
Comedy farce with suspense, very entertaining.
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Defective disc
Defective disc. Do not send replacement thank you
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Farcically serious
The film starts out with a raging fire and degenerates into farce. A prisoner is on the run and calls at Jean Arthur's house in order to rest his sprained ... read more »
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