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Mr Deeds Goes to Town
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.
Last on
Sat 26 Feb 201113:10
BBC Two except Wales
Credits
| Role | Contributor |
|---|---|
| Longfellow Deeds | Gary Cooper |
| Director | Frank Capra |
| Louise Bennett | Jean Arthur |
| MacWade | George Bancroft |
| Cornelius Cobb | Lionel Stander |
| John Cedar | Douglass Dumbrille |
| Walter | Raymond Walburn |
| Judge May | HB Warner |
| Mabel Dawson | Ruth Donnelly |
| Morrow | Walter Catlett |
| Farmer | John Wray |