Story Line
Longfellow Deeds lives in a small town, leading a small town kind of life. When a relative dies and leaves Deeds a fortune, Longfellow moves to the big city where he becomes an instant target for everyone. Deeds outwits them all until Babe Bennett comes along. When small-town boy meets big-city girl anything can, and does, happen.
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Top Cast
Gary Cooper
Longfellow Deeds
Jean Arthur
Babe Bennett
George Bancroft
MacWade
Lionel Stander
Cornelius Cobb
Douglass Dumbrille
John Cedar
Raymond Walburn
Walter
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Rating
7.5/ 10
Release Date
1936-04-09
Runtime
1h 55m
Genres
ComedyDramaRomance
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User Reviews (2)
barrymost
7/10
•10/16/2019An unassuming poet from a small town called Mandrake Falls who suddenly inherits twenty million dollars is certainly fair game for every swindler, crooked businessman, and reporter in New York. Especially one very clever and witty newswoman named Ba...
CinemaSerf
7/10
•8/7/2025When a financier dies leaving the enormous sum of $20 millions, the race to find an heir takes us to a tiny hamlet where we meet the pixilated poet “Longfellow Deeds” (Gary Cooper). He’s an honest, slightly flighty, man who hasn’t the foggiest idea w...