Review of People Will Talk

This is indeed a film worth reviewing many times, for its amazing wit and overwhelmingly intelligent and interesting dialog and argument. A doctor is targeted for a character assassination by an envious colleague, a professor confined in a nutshell world of his own, digging out possible witnesses of his own kind who could report anything derogatory about the doctor, who gets involved with a fainting student at his lectures, who proves to be in an interesting condition. We never learn who the father is, and it could even be suspected that she doesn't know herself. There are many turns to this delicate case. At the same time the doctor is leading the students' orchestra, rehearsing a concert of Brahms, and it so happens, that the concert, providing the finale for the film, is scheduled directly after the hearing of the doctor's mysterious ways of practising by a university committee, wherein the strange case of Mr Shunderson (Finlay Currie in one of his best parts) finally is revealed but in a manner no one could be prepared for. It's one of Joe Mankiewicz's very best films, the virtuoso conversation keeps flooding throughout the film, which is the supreme pleasure among many of the film.