Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
by Frank Capra
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Actor: Douglass Dumbrille, Gary Cooper, George Bancroft, Jean Arthur, Lionel StanderDirector: Frank Capra
Brand: Sony
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Producer: Frank Capra
Editor: Gene Havlick
Writer: Clarence Budington Kelland
Writer: Robert Riskin
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: Academy Ratio, 1.33:1
Running Time: 115 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-02-01
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Movie Review: One of my favorite characters
Summary: 5 Stars
Frank Capra had a knack of creating people that resonated with the audience. Here it was Mr. Deeds, a kind small town man whose main concern was his small business and his tuba playing. When he inherits 20 million dollard from an uncle, his life is turned around with being forced to deal with rich lawyers, gold-digging women, and arrogant poets. The only positive he sees out of the rich life is a woman whose name he thinkgs is Mary, but is actually a journalist whose aspiration is to get front page stories to make him look like a fool.
I was cheering Deeds the entire way. I loved how he was not too timid to punch people who deserved it, rip on the arts crowd when they expect him to choke up money for a mismanaged Opera house, and employ common sense deduction to know when someone was being sincere and when they were trying to take him for a ride.
The climax, where Deeds gives his money to buy a large chunk of farmland, who he gives to the unemployed to till, was incredible in its message. In the courtroom when the lawyers were arguing that Deeds' charity would only tilt the economic balance, what was really being said it was the government's job to help people, not other citizen's. In the depression era whewn the film was made, where FDR's New Deal was continuing to fail, the movie could almost be seen as a call to arms to help your fellow man make a living for himself, as opposed to waiting for a handout.
Grat acting, Great message, Great movie.
Summary of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
About a big-city reporter attempting to exploit a man who intends to donate his $20 million inheritance to the needy. Special features: subtitles in english spanish portuguese chinese korean thai production notes interactive menus frank kappa jr. Commentary talent files and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2004 Starring: Jean Arthur Gary Cooper Run time: 115 minutes Rating: NrMr. 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
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