Mr. Deeds geht in die Stadt (1936)

Mr. Deeds geht in die Stadt: Directed by Frank Capra. With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander. A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

“One of Frank Caprau0026#39;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.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eIn 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 itu0026#39;s better to stay poor rather than have to deal with strangers that have designs on oneu0026#39;s newly found wealth!u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eGary 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. u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eJean 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.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003enLeonard 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.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eThe 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 itu0026#39;s pure nonsense, which after all, was what the director was looking for to make us laugh.”