Film · 1936 · Comedy drama
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Directed by Frank Capra
1936
★ 2.9 editorial score
Frank Capra and Gary Cooper at the height of the New Deal: a tuba-playing greeting card poet inherits twenty million dollars and finds out what New York wants from him.
“Mr. Deeds is the poet laureate of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. He writes greeting-day verses, limericks, and Edgar Guestian jingles with equal facility, and he plays the tuba in the town band. Then an uncle dies, leaving his $20,000,000 estate to the Vermont innocent, and Mr. Deeds, slightly dazed but unimpressed by his sudden riches, is tossed willy-nilly and tuba into scheming New York.”
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