The Man Who Talked Too Much is a 1940 American drama film directed by Vincent Sherman and written by Walter DeLeon and Earl Baldwin.

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.

[2] Steve Forbes prosecutes a case so convincingly, an innocent man ends up sentenced to die in the electric chair.

He quits the district attorney's office and opens a private practice, resulting in racketeer J.B. Roscoe becoming a client.

There are two identically suspenseful sequences, at the beginning and at the end, when innocent men linger painfully in the shadow of the electric chair while people rush around madly to save them.