Talk of the Town, The

Effective, if peculiar, mixture of screwball comedy and political moralising, in which union man Leopold Dilg (Grant) is jailed for an arson attack on a woollen mill, escapes and seeks refuge with the local schoolteacher, Nora Shelley (Arthur). But Nora has a lodger, a stuffy law professor named Lightcap (Colman), who's less willing to aid and abet a criminal. And so the debates begin. 'What is the law?' asks Grant. 'It's a gun pointed at somebody's head. All depends on which end of the gun you stand, whether the law is just or not.' And then they're back to screwball bickering.