The Man Who Talked Too Much
1940 American film / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Man Who Talked Too Much is a 1940 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and written by Walter DeLeon and Earl Baldwin. Starring George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall, Richard Barthelmess, William Lundigan, George Tobias and John Litel, the film was released by Warner Bros. on July 16, 1940.[1]
The Man Who Talked Too Much | |
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Directed by | Vincent Sherman |
Screenplay by | Walter DeLeon Earl Baldwin Tom Reed |
Based on | The Mouthpiece 1929 play by Frank J. Collins |
Produced by | Bryan Foy |
Starring | George Brent Virginia Bruce Brenda Marshall Richard Barthelmess William Lundigan George Tobias John Litel |
Cinematography | Sidney Hickox |
Edited by | Thomas Pratt |
Music by | Heinz Roemheld |
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Distributed by | Warner Bros. |
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Running time | 76 minutes |
Country | United States |
Language | English |
The Man Who Talked Too Much is the second of three films adapted from the 1929 play The Mouthpiece by Frank J. Collins, in which a former prosecutor, disillusioned by sending an innocent man to the electric chair, takes the saying "Better that a hundred guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer the death penalty" one step further by becoming a defense attorney for gangsters and adroitly tightrope walking legal ethics. Collins based his protagonist on Manhattan defense attorney William Joseph Fallon, dubbed "The Great Mouthpiece" in the New York press, who had a short but spectacularly successful career before succumbing to the effects of his own dissoluteness at the age of 41.[2]