TV Guide: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Video: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town - (A TCM Featurette)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:01:21 -0400

Director Sydney Pollack introduces Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936) for TCM's The Essentials.

Video: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town - (Re-issue Trailer)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:01:20 -0400

When small-town poet Gary Cooper inherits a fortune, he has to deal with the corruption of city life in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936).

Video: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:01:18 -0400

Screenwriter Robert Riskin gives the English language a new word, "pixellated," in this scene from Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936).

Video: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town - (Movie Clip)

TCM — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:01:17 -0400

Mr. Deeds (Gary Cooper) learns that with great wealth comes great responsibility in this scene from Mr. Deeds Goes To Town (1936).

Video: Mr. Deeds Goes To Town

Video Detective — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 23:46:14 -0400

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 declar