Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

• 7.494 Comedy
• 1936-04-09
• 115 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

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 (Farmer)

Director:

Frank Capra

Writer:

Robert Riskin