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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe, It's a Wonderful Life, and State of the Union will each rely on similar cross-cutting between scenes of play or idealistic dreaming involving the principal characters and scenes of Machiavellian scheming involving another set of characters to place and implicitly criticize the ...
1 de mar. de 2013 · In Praise of Frank Capra, Fabulist. From 1936 to 1946, Frank Capra directed four of the most compelling movies I have ever seen: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe, and It's a Wonderful Life. Alas, among my economically prosperous, stalwartly liberal friends—some of whom are historians—these New Deal-era ...
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington. James Stewart takes on the powers-that-be in our nation's capitol in Frank Capra's timeless classic. Nominated for eleven 1939 Oscars (r), including best picture. Rentals include 30 days to start watching this video and 48 hours to finish once started. James Stewart takes on the powers-that-be in our nation's ...
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Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, American romantic comedy film, released in 1936, that became one of director Frank Capra ’s most popular movies. It is noted for its populist theme and for the performances of Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur. Longfellow Deeds (played by Cooper) is a country rube who, after inheriting a fortune from his uncle, moves to New ...
Capra's political films began two years later, with "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" in 1936, and (after "Lost Horizon" in 1938) "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" (1939) and "Meet John Doe" (1941). These films, which seem somewhat sentimental and simplistic today, were powerfully effective at the time of their release, contrasting American democracy to the rise of Hitler and fascism.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) (Arthur) Meet John Doe (1941) (Cooper) An irreverent modern remake titled Mr. Deeds (2002) starred Adam Sandler in the Gary Cooper role as a New Hampshire pizza parlor owner who inherited $40 billion, and Winona Ryder in Jean Arthur's role as a newspaper reporter.
