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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Rocking America with laughter!
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
- Original title
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
- Language
- EN
- Country
- US
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CinemaSerf
Aug 7, 2025 · via TMDB
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.
barrymost
Oct 16, 2019 · via TMDB
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.
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Gary Cooper
Longfellow Deeds
Jean Arthur
Babe Bennett
George Bancroft
MacWade
Lionel Stander
Cornelius Cobb
Douglass Dumbrille
John Cedar
Raymond Walburn
Walter
H.B. Warner
Judge May
Ruth Donnelly
Mabel Dawson
Walter Catlett
Morrow
John Wray
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James Cedar (uncredited)
Irving Bacon
Frank (uncredited)
Hank Bell
Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
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Cabby (uncredited)
Spencer Charters
Mal (uncredited)
Dora Clement
Party Guest (uncredited)
Gino Corrado
Strolling Violinist (uncredited)
George Cooper
Bob (uncredited)
Cecil Cunningham
(uncredited)
Emma Dunn
Mrs. Meredith (uncredited)
Ann Doran
Girl on Bus (uncredited)
Muriel Evans
Theresa (uncredited)
Bess Flowers
(uncredited)
Charles K. French
Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
Edward Gargan
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George 'Gabby' Hayes
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Arthur Hoyt
Budington (uncredited)
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Warren Hymer
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Edwin Maxwell
Douglas (uncredited)
Lafe McKee
Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
Frank McLure
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George Meeker
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Mayo Methot
Mrs. Semple (uncredited)
James Millican
Interne (uncredited)
Bert Moorhouse
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Louis Natheaux
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Dennis O'Keefe
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Bud Osborne
Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
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The Tailor (uncredited)
Barnett Parker
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William Phillips
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Christian Jenson (uncredited)
Hal Price
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Charles Cahill Wilson
County Hospital Guard (uncredited)
Steve Clark
Reporter (uncredited)
Pierre Watkin
Arthur Cedar (uncredited)
Gustav von Seyffertitz
Emile Von Hallor (uncredited)
Jameson Thomas
Mr. Semple (uncredited)
John Tyrrell
Reporter (uncredited)
Frank Austin
George Rankin (uncredited)
Louise Bates
(uncredited)
Wyrley Birch
Psychiatrist (uncredited)
Beatrice Blinn
Assistant Secretary (uncredited)
Sammy Blum
Reporter (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Anderson (uncredited)
Charles Brinley
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Jack Cheatham
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Jack Rube Clifford
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Tex Driscoll
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Paul Everton
Farmer (uncredited)
Florence Dudley
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Bobby Dunn
(uncredited)
Oliver Eckhardt
Dr. Emerson (uncredited)
Jay Eaton
Writer (uncredited)
Carlton Griffin
Party Guest (uncredited)
Adolph Faylauer
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Chuck Hamilton
Policeman (uncredited)
Charles Herzinger
(uncredited)
Fay Holderness
Nurse (uncredited)
Gladden James
Court Clerk (uncredited)
Eddie Kane
Brookfield (uncredited)
William Irving
Writer (uncredited)
Arthur Stuart Hull
Party Guest (uncredited)
Alphonse Martell
Headwaiter (uncredited)
Stella LeSaint
Party Guest (uncredited)
James B. Leong
Chinese Chauffeur (uncredited)
Mike Lally
Reporter (uncredited)
Margaret McWade
Amy Faulkner (uncredited)
Robert Milasch
Farmer (uncredited)
Harold Miller
Nightclub Patron (uncredited)
Gene Morgan
Waiter (uncredited)
Edwin Mordant
Board Member (uncredited)
John T. Murray
Writer (uncredited)
Frank O'Connor
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Broderick O'Farrell
(uncredited)
John Picorri
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Arthur Rankin
Reporter (uncredited)
Frederick Roland
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Anne Schaefer
(uncredited)
Margaret Seddon
Jane Faulkner (uncredited)
Antrim Short
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Lee Shumway
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S.S. Simon
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Pat Somerset
(uncredited)
Larry Steers
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Charles Sullivan
Beatle Puss (uncredited)
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Larry Wheat
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Lee Willard
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