Other Titles • Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) • Mister Deeds geht in die Stadt (1936)
Synopses for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
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Small-town "pixilated" poet and guileless good guy Longfellow Deeds inherits $20 million, and when he wants to use it to help the needy, various unsavory types try to get him declared insane. A pure Capra blend of drama, comedy and romance, based on "Opera Hat," a Saturday Evening Post story by Clarence Budington Kelland. Academy Award Nominations: 5, including Best Picture, Best Actor--Gary Cooper, Best Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Director.
(20 votes)
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is Frank Capra's classic screwball comedy about a village innocent who inherits $20 million, only to discover it's more trouble than it's worth. The screwball in question is Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), a small-town greeting-card poet and tuba player transplanted to the big city to administer his newly inherited wealth, where fast-pattering, wised-up cynics, sneering society denizens, and corrupt lawyers lord it over the ingenuous and straightforward. Deeds's idiosyncrasies are amply magnified in the tabloids by journalist "Babe" Bennett (Jean Arthur), dating Deeds as a cover, only to discover she's the sap when she falls irresistibly for him. But the damage has been done, when Babe's column is used by a pack of corrupt lawyers, Cedar, Cedar, Cedar & Budington, to prove Deeds mentally unfit. The miracle of this unforgettable comedy is how it embraces dark material, calling into question some common assumptions about capitalism while maintaining an approachable atmosphere of light comedy, and deceptively so. You'll be so pixilated by its charm, you won't rest until you've doodled your way to a rhyme for "Budington." --Jim Gay
(17 votes)
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When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist Jean Arthur, becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives, and finally decides to give his fortune away because it's so much trouble. This milestone film is one of the most charming and best-loved romantic comedies ever made.
Special features include audio commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.
(17 votes)
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