Mr. Deeds goes to town (videorecording) Columbia Pictures Corporation ; screenplay by Robert Riskin ; story by Clarence Budington Kelland ; directed and produced by Frank Capra
Videocassette release of the 1936 motion picture Starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, and George Bancroft
Summary:
A small-town poet inherits a fortune and sets New York on its heels by his simple honesty. Comedy about a writer of greeting card verses who leaves his small town home for New York when he inherits $20 million dollars. In New York, "sophisticates", including relatives, lawyers, and business executives, attempt to have him declared insane in order to gain control of the fortune. [Comedy about Longfellow Deeds, a small-town poet who inherits $20 million from his uncle and is promptly declared insane by petty moochers, relatives, conniving lawyers, and big business executives; they all want a piece of the pie and are upset because Longfellow decides to give the money away to needy people.]
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