THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING 1935 * EDWARD G. ROBINSON * JEAN ARTHUR * JOHN FORD!!

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THE WHOLE TOWN'S TALKING 1935 * EDWARD G. ROBINSON * JEAN ARTHUR * JOHN FORD!!
SCREWBALL COMEDY -
BY JOHN FORD
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The Whole Town's Talking (Columbia, 1935).
Herald (9" x 12"). Comedy, Crime, Drama.
Starring Edward G. Robinson, Jean Arthur, Wallace Ford,
Arthur Byron,
Arthur Hohl,
Donald Meek, Paul Harvey, Edward Brophy, Etienne Girardot and James Donlan.
Directed by John Ford.
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.
This is an atypical and impersonal Ford film.  Given the studio (Columbia Pictures) and the screenwriter (Robert Riskin), this is ideal stuff for Frank Capra.  But it remains without a doubt one of the most enjoyable and pleasurable comedies ever made.  It features graceful dynamism and vibrancy that are rare in the Ford oeuvre.  It is also one of his fastest movies.  It contains what is probably one of the finest Edward G. Robinson performances ever!  He is outstanding in the dual role of a mild, working class office clerk Arthur Ferguson Jones who is mistaken for a ruthless mobster, Mannion (the role he perfected in "Little Caesar").  And then there is the lovely Jean Arthur as Robinson's coolly self-reliant co-worker, who starts by pitying him and then encourages him, and ultimately falls in love with him.  She and Robinson are superb together and the sort of role Arthur was to make her own.
THIS IS AN ORIGINAL THEATRICAL RELEASE HERALD PRINTED IN 1935 FOR THEATER USE AND IS NOT A REPRODUCTION, BOOTLEG, REPRINT OR STORE BOUGHT ITEM
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WITH THE HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF POSTERS, LOBBY CARDS AND HERALDS HERITAGE AUCTION HOUSE HAS FLOODED THE MARKET WITH, THEY'VE NEVER OFFERED THIS RARE HERALD!
NOT EVEN ONCE
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Herald is in
NEAR MINT+ to MINT
Condition with NO PINHOLES, NO TEARS and NO TAPE!
(SEE PHOTOS).
STUNNING CONDITION ON THIS RARE
86 YEAR OLD JOHN FORD, EDWARD G. ROBINSON, JEAN ARTHUR COMEDY HERALD
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