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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0024543102700
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 06, 2004
Running Time: 103 minutes
Sales Rank: 4903
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: August 29, 1951
Editorial Review:
Description:
Screen legend Cary Grant stars as Dr. Noah Praetorius, a lovable professor and head of a medical clinic who becomes the subject of a McCarthy-style investigation initiated by a jealous colleague (Hume Cronyn). Along the way, Praetorius befriends and ultimately marries a young woman who attempts suicide when she discovers she is pregnant. Baut as the witch-hunt into the good doctor's personal life progresses, so do the laughs in this well-crafted, all-star treasure that should be part of every film lover's collection of classics.
Amazon.com:
After winning consecutive best director Oscars (for A Letter to Three Wives and All About Eve), Joseph Mankiewicz turned his attention to this extremely curious social comedy. Cary Grant plays a famous, idealistic gynecologist whose mysterious past is questioned by a vindictive colleague (Hume Cronyn). Meanwhile, the doctor falls for a pregnant patient (Jeanne Crain), whose unmarried status is daring for a movie of 1951 vintage. The title is an all-too-apt description of Mankiewicz's chatty style, but it also carries sinister echoes of the McCarthy era--specifically, an attempted right-wing purge of the Director's Guild, I which Mankiewicz was the main target. This subtext lends interest beyond the movie's rather tame romance. The Grant character, named Doctor Praetorius (no relation to the Bride of Frankenstein wacko, one hopes), conducts a college orchestra and is prone to 'twilight sadness'--it's an offbeat role for the actor, and one he clearly relishes. --Robert Horton
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Good Flick
People will Talk is an amazing movie in a serio/comical, light entertainment style.
Cary Grant is at his best and the rest of the cast is great as well.
Too many great scenes to list. But I would recommend this movie to anyone who likes the light humor style. There is not much of it these days.
The funny thing is I have heard things like, that movie is old, or I don't like Cary Grant or Cary who?
Good comedy or good stories are timeless. It is foolish to assume anything that ... Read More
Rating: - Oustanding Pro-Life Movie Starring Cary Grant
Most people don't know that Cary Grant starred in this rabidly pro-life, pro-family movie, People Will Talk, which, as you can imagine, is a shocking departure for a Hollywood film even then. It's a fun story line that moves along from one twist to another carrying its sanctity of life theme throughout. Jeanne Crane is radiant as she first plays Grant's pregnant patient, then his wife. People Will Talk also does a great job of revealing the institutionalized pettiness and jealousy that is so rampant ... Read More
Rating: - I just love it
I suppose if I had to write a real critical review of this movie I would list all kinds of things about the story that may be a bit ridiculous. But I have loved this movie since I first saw it as a kid. Of course the big name actors are a huge draw, and they do a great job in this one. But the story itself is compelling with the overt message about judging others versus accepting and giving people the benefit of the doubt. It says important things about integrity as well. It's a feel-good movie, and ... Read More
Rating: - People Will Talk DVD
It is always a good feeling to be able to find an old movie that you like has been transfered to DVD. It isn't Cary Grant's best work, but it is a good story.
Glad to have found it.
Rating: - JOSEPH L. MANKIEWICZ, OPUS 10
**** 1951. Written for the screen and directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz. A charismatic doctor falls in love with a patient and must defend himself when informers search his past. If we still appreciate now the interpretation of Hume Cronyn and Walter Slezak and some funny scenes of the film, PEOPLE WILL TALK becomes, with the years passing by, a vibrating pleading for free speech particularly if one is aware that Joseph L. Mankiewicz was President of the Screen Directors Guild at that time.
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