From movies on TVOntario's Saturday Night at the Movies
"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" (1936) IMDb stars Gary Cooper as Longfellow Deeds. Mr. Deeds is a young man whose amazing abilities include writing poetry for greeting cards, playing the tuba in the town band, and giving away millions of dollars. Jean Arthur is the worldly-wise newspaper reporter, Babe Bennett, who is eventually undone by the unassuming ways of Mr. Deeds. It's an entertaining Frank Capra movie still well worth the price of admission if you are into "oldies", romantic comedy and don't mind the slightly syrupy, "pixilated" point of view of a Depression era film.
Drill down into the Frank Capra Flick that also ran on TVOntario's SNAM: "It Happened One Night". See the Midnight Oil review of this film.
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