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 Posted:   Jul 26, 2016 - 12:29 PM   
 By:   johnjohnson   (Member)

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment will release on Blu-ray director Frank Capra's film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), starring Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, and Douglass Dumbrille. The release will be available for purchase on October 4.

Synopsis: When small-town innocent Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper) heads to New York to collect a $20 million inheritance, he ends up a target of ridicule thanks to Babe Bennett (Jean Arthur), a cynical reporter whose demeaning stories have made him the joke of the city. So when he discovers his sweet and unassuming new girlfriend is actually the hardboiled Bennett in disguise, a disillusioned Deeds decides to give his fortune away, an act of charity his crooked lawyer will stop at nothing to prevent.

Winner of the 1936 Academy Award for Best Director and now fully restored in 4K, Frank Capra's Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is the quintessential screwball comedy, an irresistible blend of laughter, wit and romance.

UPDATE

Special Features:
Audio Commentary by Frank Capra Jr.
"Frank Capra Jr. Remembers... Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" Featurette
Vintage Advertising Gallery
Original Theatrical Teaser
Collectible Digibook Packaging with an All-New Essay by Film Historian Jeremy Arnold

http://www.blu-ray.com/news/?id=19507

 
 Posted:   Jul 27, 2016 - 4:15 AM   
 By:   Ray Faiola   (Member)

When Merv Griffin did a salute to Capra (with Capra and others on the show), one of the clips they ran was from Capra's nitrate print of MR. DEEDS. It was the Grant's Tomb sequence and it was longer than in the final release print. It had Deeds "playing" Humoresque" as a solo, Babe "playing" "Swanee River" as a solo, and then the duet. I wonder if THAT print still exists.

 
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