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Overview

User Rating:
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Director:
Frank Capra
Writers:
Robert Riskin (screenplay)
Clarence Budington Kelland (story)
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Release Date:
12 April 1936 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Romance more
Tagline:
Rocking America with laughter!
Plot:
Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers. full summary | add synopsis
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Awards:
Won Oscar. Another 3 wins & 5 nominations more
User Comments:
Tuba player inherits fortune and becomes a Cinderella Man and gets pixiliated in Manhattan! more (77 total)

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Additional Details

Runtime:
115 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Noiseless Recording)

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Trivia:
First film for which Harry Cohn authorized Frank Capra to have his name above the title. more
Goofs:
Continuity: On the way out in the rain, Deeds closes the gate twice. more
Quotes:
Cornelius Cobb: You're wasting your time. He doesn't want any lawyers. He's sunk so low he doesn't want help from anybody. You can take a bow for that. As swell a guy as ever hit this town, and you crucified him for a couple of stinking headlines. You've done your bit. Stay out of his way. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Mr. Bean: Mr. Bean Goes to Town (#1.4)" (1991) more
Soundtrack:
Old Folks at Home (Swanee River) more

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Tuba player inherits fortune and becomes a Cinderella Man and gets pixiliated in Manhattan!, 3 August 2004
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Author: jotix100 from New York

One of Frank Capra's strengths as a film director was the great team he assembled. Not only did he have a great technical group behind him, but his casts combined talent that went from the major stars to the bit players.

In this fable, Mr. Capra gives an answer to those of us that always pondered: what would one do if one inherited a lot of money, or if one won the lottery (fat chance!) It must be terrifying to suddenly have a lot of wealth, in this case 20 million during the worst days of the Great Depression. Sometimes it's better to stay poor rather than have to deal with strangers that have designs on one's newly found wealth!

Gary Cooper has never been as charming as the tuba playing, country bumpkin whose life is changed dramatically when he has to go to Manhattan to claim his inheritance. His Longfellow Deeds gets to see first hand how the high society, his uncle belonged to, deals with this unsophisticated greeting card writing poet.

Jean Arthur was a natural comedienne. She is wonderful in this movie as the reporter who tricks Deeds into speaking with her and in the process falls in love with the man, the object of the ridicule she writes about.

Leonard Standing, one of the best character actors of the era, is equally effective as Cobb, the man who knows a thing or two about those society folks. George Bancroft was also good as MacWade.

The film has a pace that never lets the viewer down. In comparison with what passes today as film comedy, this is a masterpiece. It shows the genius of Frank Capra in charge of this group of people that make us treasure films like this one even if it's pure nonsense, which after all, was what the director was looking for to make us laugh.

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