Search
A failed TV version of Frank Capra's 1936 Oscar-winning satire of big-city corruption casts Monte Markham in the Gary Cooper role of principled but naive Longfellow Deeds. Here, Deeds is a small-town newspaper editor who inherits millions, then tangles with Manhattan slickers when he decides to give it all away. Adam Sandler brought the character back to the big screen in 2002's `Mr. Deeds.'
A reluctant millionaire (Gary Cooper) is declared insane when he announces that he'll give his fortune away to America's poor. Oscar(r)-winning direction by Frank Capra.
Paid | CinemaNow
Length: 01:56:00
Posted: 11/16/2008
Longfellow Deeds, a simple-hearted Vermont tuba player, inherits a fortune and has to contend with opportunist city slickers.
Paid | Amazon Video on Demand
Length: 01:57:00
Posted: 11/1/2008
Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) is required in the band for his own sendoff from Mandrake Falls, VT, in an early scene from Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936.
Free | TCM

Posted: 12/8/2009
Longfellow (Gary Cooper) doesn't want to quit work but does like the idea of lunch for everybody in Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, 1936.
Free | TCM

Posted: 12/4/2009
Loading...
Advertisement
Premiered: September 26, 1969, on ABC
Rating: None
User Rating: (Be the first to rate!)
Add Your Rating: 1 stars2 stars3 stars4 stars5 stars
Premise: A failed TV version of Frank Capra's 1936 Oscar-winning satire of big-city corruption casts Monte Markham in the Gary Cooper role of principled but naive Longfellow Deeds. Here, Deeds is a small-town newspaper editor who inherits millions, then tangles with Manhattan slickers when he decides to give it all away. Adam Sandler brought the character back to the big screen in 2002's `Mr. Deeds.'

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town Cast

Advertisement