History Film / MrDeedsGoesToTown

* PassedOverInheritance: A wealthy uncle dies and left his twenty million dollars to his nephew Longfellow Deeds, who had barely any contact with him and lives in upstate New York, rather than his already-wealthy shallow socialite nephew in the city. The second nephew and his wife are shown in a brief scene early on complaining that they aren't getting their long-expected fortune, and later Mr. Cedar turns to them to contest the will.
* PlotTriggeringDeath: The plot of a CountryMouse receiving an UnexpectedInheritance is kicked off with the opening lethal car accident of Deeds' super-rich uncle.

* SourSupporter: Cobb complains endlessly about Deeds' behavior, but when Babe turns up to apologize says that Deeds is one of the only good men to live in the city and backs him up all the way.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: While in the meeting of the opera committee, Deeds gets distracted by the noise from a fire engine, which they don't have in Mandrake Falls.

* InLoveWithTheMark: Babe stages a RescueRomance with Deeds to advance her journalist career and then falls in love with him.

* HighHeelFaceTurn: Babe has one after she genuinely falls in love with Longfellow Deeds while on an assignment to do a hatchet job on him.

* MeetCute: Once Deeds moves to the big city, Babe wants to meet him so she can do a big story on him -- so she pretends to faint outside his mansion, and he gallantly comes to her aid.

%%* ThePowerOfFriendship

%%* TheRoaringTwenties

* BecomingTheMask: Babe stages a RescueRomance with Deeds to advance her journalist career and then falls in love with him.

* HeelFaceTurn: Babe has one after she genuinely falls in love with Longfellow Deeds while on an assignment to do a hatchet job on him.

* LoveRedeems: Babe does a {{Heel Face Turn}} because she fell in love with Deeds and marries him in the end.

* CharacterActionTitle

* DisproportionateReward
* EvilIsPetty

* FriendToAllLivingThings: Deeds

* ThePowerOfFriendship
* [[QuirkyHousehold Quirky Townsfolk]]

* TheRoaringTwenties
* ScrewballComedy
* SingleWomanSeeksGoodMan

* ThrowingOutTheScript: A Capra staple trope.

* ThoseTwoGuys: Babe's photographer duo.

It was remade, quite loosely, as the 2002 Creator/AdamSandler vehicle ''Film/MrDeeds''.

* TheRemake: The 2002 remake staring Adam Sandler of all people!

-->'''Deeds:''' Twenty million, that's quite a lot isn't it?
-->'''Cobb:''' It'll do in a pinch.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.

* ArtisticLiscence:Medicine: [[spoiler: Manic depression has you become violent during the manic phases, not depressed phases. It's unclear whether that part was ScienceMarchesOn, ArtisticLiscense:Medicine, or a purposeful indication that the doctor who was diagnosing Mr. Deeds was simply full of it. In addition, the graph he uses shows the two stages as "abnormal" for manic and "subnormal" for depressive, which besides being not even DistinctionWithoutADifference are not even real descriptions for the two stages as either stage could be either term, as well as not making full sense in context. In addition, the Austrian doctor's assertions that it's hard to spot "manic-depressives" since they can be normal for years (in addition to their phasings being slow and gradual) is also not true as someone in a manic phase typically has psychosis, and is what you would imagine and stereotypical image of anti-depression done to the level of psychosis: extreme sexual binging, deciding to create extreme projects that are very grand, being unable to sleep for days, and extremely active]].

* ArtisticLiscence:Medicine: [[spoiler: Manic depression has you become violent during the manic phases, not depressed phases. It's unclear whether that part was ScienceMarchesOn, ArtisticLiscense:Medicine, or a purposeful indication that the doctor who was diagnosing Mr. Deeds was simply full of it. In addition, the graph he uses shows the two stages as "abnormal" for manic and "subnormal" for depressive, which besides being not even DistinctionWithoutADifference are not even real descriptions for the two stages as either stage could be either term, as well as not making full sense in context. In addition,]].

* ArtisticLiscence:Medicine: [[spoilor: manic depression has you become violent during the manic phases, not depressed phases]].

* SourSupporter: Cobb complains endlessly about Deeds' behavior, but when Babe turns up to apologize says that Deeds is one of the only good men to live in the city.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar:
** When [=MacWade=] berates his employees for failing to get a story about Deeds, one of them mutters an insult under his breath. [=MacWade=] asks him to repeat what he just said, and he nearly does, but then he thinks better of it:
--->'''Reporter:''' I said you were a... uh... I said you had dirty ''plaster''.
** The following exchange:
--->'''Deeds''': Did you hear him? Talking about women as if they were cattle...
--->'''Servant''': Well, each man has his own [[BestialityIsDepraved tastes.]]

* RagsToRiches: Deeds isn't poor; in fact he co-owns a tallow factory and rents property. But he certainly isn't prepared to have twenty million dollars (over $360million in 2018 dollars) dropped in his lab.

* RagsToRiches: Deeds isn't poor; in fact he co-owns a tallow factory and rents property. But he certainly isn't prepared to have twenty million dollars dropped in his lab.

-->'''Servant''': Well, each man has his own [[BestialityIsDepraved tastes.]]

* InLoveWithTheMark: Babe eggs Deeds on to party and break all the social norms of [=NYC=] high society so she can write some juicy articles, but the longer she spends with him the more she's attracted to his decent nature.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A conversation between a newspaper and his employees about "Dirty Plaster."
** Also the following exchange:
-->'''Deeds''': Did you hear him? Talking about women as if they were cattle...

''Mr. Deeds Goes to Town'' is a 1936 classic film directed by Creator/FrankCapra, which won him the second of three {{Academy Award}}s.