The Whole Town's Talking

The story

Ordinary man-in-the-street Arthur Ferguson Jones leads a very straightforward life. He's never late for work and nothing interesting ever happens to him. One day everything changes: he oversleeps and is fired as an example, he's then mistaken for evil criminal killer Mannion and is arrested. The resemblance is so striking that the police give him a special pass to avoid a similar mistake. The real Mannion sees the opportunity to steal the pass and move around freely and chaos results.

• #wanted criminal
• #doppelganger
• #screwball comedy
• #look-alike
• #trading places
• #mistaken identity
• #mistaken arrest
• #gangster
• #milquetoast
• #body double