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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
EAN: 9780767821568
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
ISBN: 0767821564
Label: Sony Pictures
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Number Of Items: 1
Picture Format: Academy Ratio
Publisher: Sony Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 115 minutes
Sales Rank: 19715
Studio: Sony Pictures
Theatrical Release Date: April 16, 1936
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
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
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Not nearly as good as I thought it would be...
It was too long and a little too slow for my liking. He was too brooding, too silent, and was it okay then to punch everyone when you felt like it? I like other Capra films, but this was just okay for me. I like to divide movies into "would I watch it again if someone else wanted me to watch it with them or not?" The answer would be 'no'. I'd find something else better and more interesting to do with my two hours.
Rating:  - Add Me To The List
Add me to the list of fawning reviews. If you do not cry at the end of this movie, you are not human. The acting, direction, dialogue, and above all, sheer humanity of this picture make it one of the cinematic greats. Thank you Turner Classic Movies! As a side note, I should disclose that I am a practicing trial attorney. The depiction of my profession is vicious, bordering on hateful. This movie loses a half star for this, but since Amazon only provides full star increments, I'm erring on ... Read More
Rating:  - High Noon In The Big Apple
Great title isn't it? I thought so, but then I'm jaded. But then I love Frank and everything he's done.
Don't waste your time (or money) on cheap imitations. You know there is nothing like the original. It is impossible for any remake of any Frank Capra film to be a cinematic improvement over the original, even if the original is in black and white. (Sorry Adam Sandler, it's nothing personal) Capra's character development is genius. The interactions and transformations along with ... Read More
Rating: - A Most Sublime Piece of "Capra-Corn" with Cooper and Arthur at Their Youthful Zenith
This is "Capra-corn" at its most sublime as this 1936 comedy is still one of the legendary director's best works due primarily to the sterling, career-defining performances of Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. In the 1930's and 40's, Frank Capra's oeuvre was the humanistic picture, inspirational to the common folk reeling from the Great Depression and later World War II. Written by his frequent (and later quite embittered) collaborator, Robert Riskin, this was his first film fully in this direction after ... Read More
Rating: - Definitively he seems to be taken by the delfts
"Mr. Deeds" incarnates to a good-natured middle age man, who suddenly is aware he has inherited an immense fortune and decides - for the general surprise - to distribute it among the most needed people.
But beneath the anecdote of this urban fable, there's more; at first place a tongue in the cheek before the hard times of the Great depression of 1929, on the other hand Capra allows himself certain liberties to carve in relief in terms of comedy what years later would come : "The grapes ... Read More
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