Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Longfellow Deeds leads a simple, small-town life until a relative's death bequeaths him a fortune. He relocates to the big city, quickly becoming an instant target for fame-hungry schemers. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett arrives. When a small-town boy meets a big-city girl, anything can, and does, happen.
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Frank Capra
Charles C. Coleman
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barrymost
An unassuming poet from a small town called Mandrake Falls who suddenly inherits twenty million dollars is certainly fair game for every swindler, crooked businessman, and reporter in New York. Especially one very clever and witty newswoman named Babe Bennett, played by the great Jean Arthur. I must admit, I'm still rather indifferent towards Gary Cooper, but his performance in this wasn't bad, and I'm sure would please his fans. But Jean Arthur is consistently wonderful in every movie I've seen her in. The script is full of witty, intelligent dialogue, as well as the usual trademark Capra themes. The courtroom scenes in the last half of the movie are the best part. Far from my favorite Frank Capra film, but still enjoyable. Would I recommend? Yes, for the most part. Just didn't fully "click" with me personally, though.
CinemaSerf
When a financier dies leaving the enormous sum of $20 millions, the race to find an heir takes us to a tiny hamlet where we meet the pixilated poet “Longfellow Deeds” (Gary Cooper). He’s an honest, slightly flighty, man who hasn’t the foggiest idea what to do with his new fortune except, perhaps, serenade it with his tuba! His rise to fame hasn’t gone unnoticed in the press, and one newspaper decides to send a reporter to ingratiate herself with him, and to write reports ridiculing him and naming him the “Cinderella Man”. She (Jean Arthur) gradually starts to realise that her naive and impressionable mark actually has an heart of gold, but when his grandest scheme of all to spend his money attracts the lawyers who try to certify him, can she do anything to help him fight back? Cooper is great here, and together with Arthur delivers a punchy comedy that shines a light on greed, power and their best counter-measure - decency. There’s a great ensemble cast supporting too, especially his sagely butler (Raymond Walburn) and Walter Catlett’s lively “Morrow”, but it’s really just down to Cooper showing us he has comedy timing, too.
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The directors of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town are Frank Capra and Charles C. Coleman.
The cast of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town includes George Meeker as Henneberry (uncredited), Stanley Andrews as James Cedar (uncredited), Gino Corrado as Strolling Violinist (uncredited), Douglass Dumbrille as John Cedar, Lee Shumway as Bailiff (uncredited), Charles Sullivan as Beatle Puss (uncredited), Charles Cahill Wilson as County Hospital Guard (uncredited), Harry C. Bradley as Anderson (uncredited), James Conaty as Auditor (uncredited), Edward Gargan as Bodyguard (uncredited), Harold Miller as Nightclub Patron (uncredited), Edmund Mortimer as Party Guest (uncredited), and more.
The duration of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is 1h 55 mins.
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was released on 09 Apr 1936.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is listed under Comedy, Drama, and Romance on Fanbiz.
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town has 2 reviews on Fanziz, with an average rating of 7.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "An unassuming poet from a small town called Mandrake Falls who suddenly inherits twenty million dollars is certainly fair game for every swindler, crooked businessman, and repor..."
