Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Review: Mr Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

Director: Frank Capra

Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille,

Gary Cooper
Gary Cooper
Jean Arthur
Jean Arthur
George Bancroft
George Bancroft
Lionel Stander
Lionel Stander
Douglass Dumbrille
Douglass Dumbrille

Plot: 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.

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Blast from the past: a 28-year-old term paper

Blast from the past: a 28-year-old term paper

I recently unearthed a university paper I wrote almost 30 years ago in which I tried to explain why Frank Capra’s work rubbed me the wrong way. It’s a glimpse of where I came from as a writer about […]

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