The Whole Town's Talking

The Whole Town's Talking

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193593 min6.9 / 10

A screwball comedy built on mistaken identity and escalating chaos, where an ordinary man's mundane life is upended by a case of mistaken identity with a dangerous criminal.

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.

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