The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
July 16, 1940Release Date
The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
July 16, 1940Release Date
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Where to Watch.
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Cast & Crew.
George Brent
Stephen Forbes
Virginia Bruce
Joan Reed
Brenda Marshall
Celia Farrady
Richard Barthelmess
J.B. Roscoe
William Lundigan
Johnny Forbes
George Tobias
Slug McNutt
John Litel
District Attorney Dickson
Henry Armetta
Tony Spirella
Alan Baxter
Joe Garland
David Bruce
Gerald Wilson
Clarence Kolb
E.A. Smith
Louis Jean Heydt
Barton
Marc Lawrence
Lefty Kyler
Edwin Stanley
District Attorney Nelson
Elliott Sullivan
Bill
Dick Rich
Pete
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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.
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.