People Will Talk Page #12

Synopsis: Successful and well-liked, Dr. Noah Praetorius becomes the victim of a witch hunt at the hands of Professor Elwell, who disdains Praetorius's unorthodox medical views and also questions his relationship with the mysterious, ever-present Mr. Shunderson. Fuel is added to the fire when Praetorius befriends young Deborah Higgins, who has become suicidal at the prospect of having a baby by her ex boyfriend, a military reservist who was called up for service in the Korean War and killed in action.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Production: Twentieth Century Fox
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
7.5
APPROVED
Year:
1951
110 min
920 Views


and had it buried

in a charity graveyard.

From that day on,

he has never left me.

And I think it is understandable

that from time to time...

he may seem a little confused...

and perhaps even a little dull-witted.

I don't mean to intrude

too much, gentlemen...

but I'm sure that by now

you must have made up your minds.

Deborah, a wife simply does not

come barging into a room...

when her husband

is being investigated.

After all, if he's innocent,

he's late for the concert.

And if he isn't,

he'd better start conducting anyway...

because he may have to

earn his living at it.

I'm of the opinion the hearing is at an end.

Do you agree, Professor Elwell?

The trouble with you is, Elwell,

you've never had a cadaver of your own...

much less one that bit your finger.

And as for

this incredible evening, gentlemen...

the sooner we can forget it,

the better for all concerned.

And I think we've held up

the concert far too long.

Professor Elwell, you're a little man.

It's not that you're short.

You're little in the mind

and in the heart.

Tonight you tried to make a man little

whose boots you couldn't touch...

if you stood on tiptoe on top of

the highest mountain in the world.

And as it turned out...

you're even littler than you were before.

# Gaudeamus igitur #

#Juvenes dum sumus #

# Gaudeamus igitur #

#Juvenes dum sumus #

# Post jucundam juventutem #

# Post molestam senectutem #

# Nos habebit #

# Humus #

# Nos habebit #

# Humus #

# Vivat academia #

# Vivant professores #

# Alma Mater floreat #

# Quae nos educavit #

# Vivat membrum quodlibet #

# Vivat membra quaelibet #

# Semper sint #

# In flore #

# Semper sint #

# In flore #

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Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Joseph Leo Mankiewicz (February 11, 1909 – February 5, 1993) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. Mankiewicz had a long Hollywood career, and he twice won the Academy Award for both Best Director and Best Writing, Screenplay for A Letter to Three Wives (1949) and All About Eve (1950). more…

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