Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

Overview
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.
Reviews (2)
barrymost (Rated: 7)
An unassuming poet from a small town called Mandrake Falls who suddenly inherits twenty million dollars is certainly fair game for every swindler, crooked businessman, and reporter in New York. Especially one very clever and witty newswoman named Babe Bennett, played by the great Jean Arthur. I mu...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
When a financier dies leaving the enormous sum of $20 millions, the race to find an heir takes us to a tiny hamlet where we meet the pixilated poet “Longfellow Deeds” (Gary Cooper). He’s an honest, slightly flighty, man who hasn’t the foggiest idea what to do with his new fortune except, perhaps, se...
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