New York Sun

Where Does ‘Mr. Deeds Goes To Town’ Fit in the Frank Capra Pantheon?

What New York City won’t do to a man. Take Longfellow Deeds of Mandrake Falls, Vermont. This habitue of small-town America has it pretty good: He writes poetry for a greeting card company, plays tuba ...
The New York Times

‘Mr. Deeds Goes to Town’: Frank Capra’s Two-Fisted Santa

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 ...
The Journal Times

Review: Sandler goes to town as `Mr. Deeds'

No one but a crazy person would go to Adam Sandler's "Mr. Deeds" and expect it to be in the same league as the movie it's based on, Frank Capra's "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town." Sandler is no Gary Cooper - ...