Party Wire

Party Wire is a 1935 drama film starring Jean Arthur and Victor Jory. It was based on the novel of the same name by Bruce Manning. In a small town, an overhead conversation on a telephone party line results in gossip that causes a great deal of trouble for a young woman and a wealthy man.

Mathilda is delighted and bullies her husband Tom Oscar Apfel, the president of the Sherman Bank, into firing Marge. She also disqualifies Marges winning entry in the prestigious annual flower show. Marge and Matthew are oblivious to the rumors. He asks her to marry him she accepts, provided they elope the next day. Meanwhile, when Matthew was late for their elopement, Marge assumed he believed the stories. Will, having discovered it was his call that started the whole mess, shoots himself. Fortunately, he botches his suicide and survives with only a minor wound. Marge and Mathew separately find out about the ugly stories being circulated about Marge. Matthew decides to teach the town a sharp lesson. He first transfers all his money out of the Sherman Bank, which would lead to its collapse, and orders the replacement of all 300 local workers with outoftowners. Faced with the destruction of their community, the workers organize a meeting that Matthew attends in the new town hall. Before things get totally out of hand, Matthews aunt Nettie who hadnt left bed the last fifteen years shows up and gives the townsfolk a tonguelashing for their malicious gossip by bringing up their own past misdeeds.Everything is eventually straightened out and the couple sneak off to the nearby town Springfield to get married. However, the chastened townspeople have not changed their ways too much it seems. A mock disagreement between the newlyweds about where they should spend their honeymoon is seen and misreported as a fullblown argument by Bert West. ........

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