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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many world problems would be solved if we simply transferred Bezos’s extreme wealth to fictional 1936 himbo Mr. Deeds. it’s really that easy
Mr. Deeds is a good guy who just wants to play his tuba and these rich jerks keep railroading him!
gary cooper writing jean arthur a poem about how she’s an angel on earth and then running away as fast as he can after she reads it and knocking over garbage cans and tripping over the sidewalk in the process is the most wholesome thing I have ever seen.
also he just straight SOCKS anyone who’s mean to him in the face and takes zero shit from anybody in this movie and i live for it. he’s beauty, he’s grace, he’s going to punch you in the face.
I totally dig the sincerity of the movie; but what really gets me with these Capra pictures are the moments. The shot of Cooper playing with his shoe when he makes a late night phone call to Arthur cause he can't stop thinking of her. The looooooong silence that follows the revelation that Arthur has betrayed him. The way Arthur's editor musses up her hair when she gives her notice. Cooper not only sliding down the railing of his fancy new house - but tickling the foot of the statue at the bottom of the staircase. Just heaven.
The hypocrisy and cynicism of the rich and (over)-educated wasn't really resonating with my six year old; but he stuck with it and was really moved by the ending. Me, too.
A thoroughly enjoyable 1930’s romcom. Poor-ish man inherits a lot of money and adapts to his new life. The chemistry between Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur was palpable, and I wouldn’t have guessed that it was her first feature role, as she did fantastic. The courtroom drama at the end was really fun.
Crowded with the conventional trademarks of a Frank Capra movie, Mr Deeds Goes to Town is a romantic comedy on how the decent and upstanding manner of one person can influence others in constructive ways. Based on author Clarence Budington Kelland’s 1935 short story Opera Hat, and with the layout of bringing a countryside resident and placing them in a big city environment is an aged storyline, this being one of them, watching the confrontation of society sophistication somehow remains timeless.
Gary Cooper brings about an excellent portrayal of Mr Longfellow Deeds, providing a natural intelligence and the sense of honesty which the character’s delivery requires. It all comes alive on the screen with the direction of Capra and the…
Do what you know to be the right thing. So what if you’ll look a little silly in the process. And fuck lawyers.
Capra is my kind of filmmaker. And what’s more, seemingly my kind of human. I’m a sucker for his screwy idealism and golden age sensibilities. I look to him as a name that embodies most everything I love about classic cinema, and this so-obviously-of-the-thirties work of genuine goodness is a marker for that time machine slash comfort watch I so adore. And Gary Cooper. Oh my God, Gary Cooper. So wonderful here as this tuba-playing country bumpkin, a character initially arriving with the vibe of a Jimmy-Stewart-type-beat but fast evolving into his own quirkily deadpan turn, funnier…
“Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” is a portrait of Americana rendered in a thin watercolour of a narrative. But the soul of the creation itself — is powerfully divine.
In a somewhat reductive narrative to the superior “Mr. Smith Goes to Washington,” director Frank Capra riffs on the concept of a displaced country boy in “Deeds.” A moral man in the midst of immorality - Mr. Deeds, like Mr. Smith, seems lost in the modern world.
But — he isn’t actually lost at all. And this is why Capra’s messaging evades preachiness and remains transcendent all these years later. While Deeds and Smith almost appear to be singular saints, they are revealed not as outliers to society, but emblematic of…
