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Mr Deeds Goes to Town

Duration: 1 hour, 55 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Two EnglandLatest broadcast: on BBC Two England

Screwball comedy in which a small-town poet inherits 20 million dollars and decides to give it all away to the needy. A newspaper editor sends a female reporter on his trail, convinced that there is more to his story than meets the eye. Show less

Contributors

Longfellow Deeds:
Gary Cooper
Director:
Frank Capra
Louise Bennett:
Jean Arthur
Cornelius Cobb:
Lionel Stander
Judge May:
HB Warner
Mabel Dawson:
Ruth Donnelly
Farmer:
John Wray

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