Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 115 min
- Age rating
- NR
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
The story
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.
- new york city
- newspaper
- small town
- postcard
- money
- lawyer
- reporter
- black and white
- vermont
- heir
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Gary Cooper
Longfellow Deeds
Jean Arthur
Babe Bennett
George Bancroft
MacWade
Lionel Stander
Cornelius Cobb
- Douglass Dumbrille — John Cedar
- Raymond Walburn — Walter
- H.B. Warner — Judge May
- Ruth Donnelly — Mabel Dawson
- Walter Catlett — Morrow
- John Wray — Farmer
- Stanley Andrews — James Cedar (uncredited)
- Irving Bacon — Frank (uncredited)
- Hank Bell — Unemployed Farmer (uncredited)
- Billy Bevan — Cabby (uncredited)
- Spencer Charters — Mal (uncredited)
- Directed
- Frank Capra
- Written
- Robert Riskin
Production
- Rating
- 7.6 / 10 · 408 ratings
- Studio
- Columbia Pictures
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
