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When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by one Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. Already a reasonably successful local businessman, Deeds doesn't really feel the need for anything extra in his ...more
MPAA Rating: NR | Year: 2036 | Running Time: 115 minutes
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$13.99MR DEEDS GOES TO TOWN (1936) / (FULL B&W SUB RPKG)
Frank Capra built his career around the themes that he explores in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. For the populist Capra, the battle lines are clearly drawn; he makes his points (sometimes heavy-handedly) by pitting small-town simplicity, selflessness, and idealism against big-city sophistication, greed, and cynicism. Capra raised the "little guy" to iconic status, stereotyping him as effortlessly as he stigmatized the corrupt city slicker. Gary Cooper's Longfellow Deeds often looks as if he is ...more
- Gary Cooper - Longfellow Deeds
- Jean Arthur - Babe Bennett
- George Bancroft - MacWade
- Lionel Stander - Cornelius Cobb
- Douglas Dumbrille - John Cedar
- H.B. Warner - Judge Walker
- Stanley Andrews - James Cedar
- Billy Bevan - Cabby
- Harry C. Bradley - Anderson
- Cecil Cunningham - Bit part
- Beatrice Curtis
- Harry Holden - Guard
- Russell Hicks - Dr. Malcolm
- George "Gabby" Hayes - Farmers' Spokesman
- Frank Capra - Director
- Frank Capra - Producer
- Robert Riskin - Screenwriter
- Clarence Budington Kelland - Book Author
- Stephen Goosson - Art Director
- Samuel Lange - Costume Designer
- C.C. Coleman - First Assistant Director
- Gene Havlick - Editor
- Dimitri Tiomkin - Composer (Music Score)
- Howard Jackson - Musical Direction/Supervision
- Joseph Walker - Cinematographer
- Roy Davidson - Special Effects
- Edward Bernds - Sound Mixer
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