Movie #145 ........................."People Will Talk"

Movie #145 "People Will Talk" was a surprise. I was looking up classics I hadn't seen, and this one popped up. I ordinarily love the classics, esp. ones with Cary Grant. And netflix predicted I would give this a 4. Well, netflix, you were wrong on this one. What a snore. This was based on a play entitled "Dr. Praetorius" and you could tell the movie was a play first ----- this was way too talky. And when people talked, they just sat in one place. A big piece of blocking was for Grant to sit on a bed Indian style --- then, in the same discussion, move to his stomach, and then put his arm up to lean on..........and the discussion went on and on..........long passages until it came to a screeching halt and most of us could have guessed the big surprise, if that's what you would call it. And very little humor. I didn't even smile once in the two hours. It's funny because while I was watching this movie on my computer, I had "Ordinary People" on in the background on the big t.v., and I found myself watching that more. In fact, I was going to check to see if I rated that film yet the 5 it so surely deserves. See that one, instead of this clunker.




Average rating: 3.786
I gave it two stars
People Will Talk
(1951) NR
Dr. Praetorius (Cary Grant) is a well-liked medical professor at a dull Midwestern college who impresses those around him with his unorthodox ways of teaching. Not as impressed is Praetorius's archrival (Hume Cronyn), a conservative doctor who does everything within his power to bring Praetorius down. Out of the blue, Praetorius meets and falls in love with an unattached pregnant woman (Jeanne Crain), spiraling him into uncharted territory.