People Will Talk1951

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Stars: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn, Walter Slezak
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Runtime: 110 minutes

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 … more »

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Shunderson:
Professor Elwell, you're a little man. It's not that you're short. You're...little, in the mind and in the heart. Tonight, you tried to make a man little whose boots you couldn't touch if you stood on tiptoe on top of the highest mountain in the world. And as it turned out...you're even littler than you were before.

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John Roumeliotis
The subtle genius and forward thinking of this movie almost makes it hard to believe it was filmed in 1951. When Dr. Praetorious responded to a judgemental if not bigotted comment by his nurse by saying "you're a woman and a nurse and I'm ashamed of both of you". was silver screen magic and would hold just as true if said today. more »
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Lisa Roy
One of the BEST scenes ever in TV or Movies.....so glad I saw this movie. it is a HALLELUJAH moment for people who have been cornered and coerced by the little men in this world, in every business like Elwell! I LOVE this! more »
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