Mr. Deeds Goes to Town [Movie]

Year:

1936

Tagline:

«Meet Gary as Mr. Deeds- and fall in love with him -as he panics Broadway with the audacity of his adventures-strikes back at his enemies in the most startling climax ever seen upon the screen! (Print Ad- Albany Times-Union, ((Albany NY)) 22 April 1936)»

Country:

USA

Genres:

Drama, Comedy, Melodrama

A simple small-town man inherits a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.

People here are funny. They work so hard at living they forget how to live.

Longfellow Deeds

I guess I found out that all famous people aren't big people.

Puzzles me why these people all want to work for nothing. It isn't natural. So I guess I'd better think about it some more.

Why do mice go where there's cheese?

It's easy to make fun of somebody if you don't care how much you hurt them.

Last night, after I left you, I was walking along and — and lookin' at the tall buildings, and I got to thinking about what Thoreau said. "They created a lot of grand palaces here, but they forgot to create the noblemen to put in them".

Longfellow Deeds

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