starring Gary Cooper with Jean Arthur
Gary Cooper , in one of his most famous and best roles, gives a subtle performance as the Vermont innocent, Longfellow Deeds , who suddenly inherits 20-million dollars from an uncle. This young man writes ' poetry' for birthday cards, plays the tuba in the town band and has never left rural Mandrake Falls in his life. When he goes to New York, he finds that almost everybody he meets there is out to rob him ...
Screenplay by ROBERT RISKIN from the story by CLARENCE BUDINGTON KELLAND Directed by FRANK CAPRA
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