UNITED STATES · 1935

The Whole Town’s Talking

John Ford
Classical Hollywood mistaken identity criminal impersonation ordinary life disrupted double life identity confusion
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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

Year1935
CountryUnited States
DirectorJohn Ford
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