Everett CollectionRaymond Walburn, Gary Cooper in Mr. Deed Goes to Town, 1936. Stars: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur. Director: Frank Capra Distributor: Columbia Academy Awards: 1, Directing (Capra) “Next ...

Trustful giving is at the center of Frank Capra’s classic “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town.” It’s about how trust in our goodness and the goodness of others can unleash tremendous good. It’s also about how a ...

Frank Capra is remembered for his inspiring movies about ordinary people who do extraordinary things. Like many directors, he had certain actors with whom he enjoyed working, so he would feature them ...

This 1936 comedy, starring Gary Cooper and showing for a week at Film Forum, turns the tables on the period’s metropolitan melodramas. By J. Hoberman Around the dawn of the New Deal, a naïve bumpkin ...

Longfellow Deeds (played by Adam Sandler) is the owner of a popular pizzeria in the small town of Mandrake Falls N.H. He is a seemingly happy and well-adjusted guy whose main pastime involves writing ...

When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist Jean Arthur, becomes the target of ruthless ...