Mr. Deeds Goes to Town with Gary Cooper: DVD Cover

    Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Director: Frank Capra Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander

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    • DVD Release Date: 12/09/2008
    • Original Release: 1936
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 7,659

    Viewer Rating: (3 ratings)

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    Features

    Closed Caption; Frank Capra, Jr. Remembers... Mr. Deeds Goes to Town; Commentary by Frank Capra, Jr.; Vintage advertising gallery

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    Scene Index

    Disc #1 -- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
    1. Start [1:03]
    2. Semple Heir Search [3:23]
    3. Longfellow Deeds [5:53]
    4. A Lot of Friends [2:28]
    5. C's & Little B [1:49]
    6. Babe Bennett [4:51]
    7. Gentlemen From the Opera [3:41]
    8. "Lamb Bites Wolf." [4:54]
    9. Lady In Distress [5:04]
    10. Literati [4:50]
    11. Cinderella Man [1:47]
    12. "Quite a Bender." [4:31]
    13. A Date With Mary [3:19]
    14. Nuisance Value [1:07]
    15. "Swanee River" [4:56]
    16. What's Eating Babe [2:54]
    17. Echoes [6:04]
    18. Longfellow Proposes [3:46]
    19. Quitting [3:17]
    20. The Truth [3:08]
    21. End of His Rope [4:06]
    22. Giving His Dough Away [4:34]
    23. Insanity Warrant [4:14]
    24. Sanity Hearing [7:23]
    25. Pixilated [3:04]
    26. Dr. Emile Von Hallor [7:15]
    27. Deeds' Two Cents [9:39]
    28. Case Dismissed [2:28]

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    Editorial Reviews

    When a car crash ends the life of a fabulously wealthy patron of the arts, the decedent's $20,000,000 fortune is inherited by one Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. Already a reasonably successful local businessman, Deeds doesn't really feel the need for anything extra in his life: he just wants enough time to practice his tuba and compose greeting-card doggerel. When Deeds is convinced to move to New York, hard-boiled newspaper reporter Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur) is dispatched to get the inside scoop on "The Cinderella Man." Babe's stories of Deeds' eccentricities and no-nonsense dealings with phonies and poseurs provide excellent headline fodder; but she begins to regret her actions, having fallen in love with the big lug. Deeds ultimately sets up a foundation to dispense his fortune to the country's neediest souls, on the proviso that the recipients do their best to get back on their feet, a turn of events that leads his lawyer John Cedar (Douglas Dumbrille) to try to have him declared insane. By the end of the sanity hearing, the judge (H. B. Walker) declares: "Not only are you sane, but you're the sanest man who ever walked in this courtroom!" A joyously unadulterated hunk of Frank Capra-corn, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was adapted by Robert Riskin from Clarence Buddington Kelland's short story "Opera Hat." In addition to the pleasure of watching the country bumpkin outwit city slickers, the movie is a film buff's dream, boasting one of the best character-actor casts ever assembled for a single film. Nominated for four Academy Awards, the film won Frank Capra his second Oscar (out of three) as Best Director. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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    Very appropriate movie for our economic times!by John316

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    February 16, 2009: My 14 year old son requested this DVD for his birthday. Our entire family loves this movie! It is refreshing to watch a movie where the focus on material possessions is in the right perspective. Gary Cooper inherits a large sum of money, but instead of spending it foolishly, he wants to help the town folk who need it more. It is based on the Great Depression. A great movie for the times we are in economically! I highly recommend this to anyone.

    one of capra's finestby Anonymous

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    June 27, 2004: frank capra, gary cooper, jean arthur. the result is magic! you can watch this film again and again ( I did). It never palls. Its fundamental values of decency and right vs wrong are as relevant today as when the film was made. A true classic.

    This review was written about the DVD Black & White edition.


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    What to watch out for

    • Drugs:

      Deeds goes on a drinking spree and winds up with amnesia and no pants.

    • Messages

    • Violence:

      Deeds avenges himself by using his fists.

    • Consumerism:

      Not an issue.

    • Sex:

      Not an issue.

    • Language:

      Not an issue.

    What Parents Need to Know

    About Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    Parents need to know that Deeds engages in a fist fight and goes on a comic drinking binge, but that's about as racy as the movie gets. Mr. Deeds examines how the poor were treated during the Depression, and ends up championing common decency.

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