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People Will Talk
The title is apt indeed: this is one of the talkiest movies Joseph L Mankiewicz ever wrote and directed. On paper, it's a romantic comedy about a doctor (Cary Grant) who treats, then marries already pregnant Jeanne Crain, much to the chagrin of both the academic fraternity and the moral majority. Along the way, however, Mankiewicz takes pot shots at American sexual morality, tax evasion, the Korean war, the McCarthy witch-hunts and a lot more besides. Though the film is bombastic and visually static, Grant is on top form, while you have to hand it to Mankiewicz for bravery in the face of 1950s conformity.
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