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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1936

Frank Capra

Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander ...

7.7

4,502

Comedy. Romance When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur). Suddenly, he becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives.

	Author	Review
United States	Frank S. Nugent The New York Times	"The directing-writing combination (...) has spiced Clarence Budington Kelland's story with wit, novelty, and ingenuity"	POS
United Kingdom	David Parkinson Empire	"Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur are electric in Capra's sweet comedy drama (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Don Druker Chicago Reader	"[It creates] an all-embracing, naively optimistic unity in the midst of strife-torn Depression America. Capracorn at its best"	POS
United States	Variety	"The farce is good-humored and the trouping and production workmanlike, but there are some lapses in midriff that cause considerable uncertainty."	NEU
United Kingdom	Don Macpherson Time Out	"[Capra] perfected the screwball comedy technique of pursuing common sense to logical ends in a lunatic situation. 'Mr Deeds Goes to Town' is one of the best"	POS

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