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...Talk of the Town (Ronald Colman, Jean Arthur, Gary Grant; TIME...
Professor Colman, spade-bearded, bachelor dean of a law school, clings to a somewhat cloistered view of the law. A renowned theorist, he is unaware of the common or police-court distortions of legal principles. Gary Grant, Jean Arthur and others resolve-not entirely unselfishly-to open his eyes. Grant is a fugitive from an arson charge. He has been framed by his boss, who burned down his factory to collect the insurance. Miss Arthur, a rather befuddled schoolmarm, just wants to see justice done...
...temptation to interest Dean Colman in Grant's case becomes overwhelming after the professor rents Miss Arthur's home for the summer: Grant is hiding out there. Colman takes him for Joseph, the gardener. But Grant's unhorticultural viewpoint staggers Colman's legal mind. When Colman asks: "How are the zinnias getting along, Joseph?" Grant replies: "They're dying...
...time the Supreme Court appointment comes to Colman, he is so busy trying to clear Gardener Grant that he barely notices the honor. At induction time he takes his seat on the supreme bench with a new light in his eye. The light, of course, is Miss Jean Arthur. But Gary Grant gets her-a departure which would be more momentous if Producer-Director George Stevens had not scrapped his love story for the comedy...
Good quip: Grant, injured, hunted, fed up with Colman's idealistic legal philosophizings, blurts out: "Professor, you don't live in this country; you just take a room...