Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
Comedy, Drama, Romance • 1h 55m
Director: Frank Capra
Cast: Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur, George Bancroft, Lionel Stander, Douglass Dumbrille, Raymond Walburn, H.B. Warner, Ruth Donnelly, Walter Catlett, John Wray, Stanley Andrews, Irving Bacon, Hank Bell, Billy Bevan, Spencer Charters, Dora Clement, Gino Corrado, George Cooper, Cecil Cunningham, Emma Dunn, Mary Lou Dix, Ann Doran, Muriel Evans, Bess Flowers, Charles K. French, Edward Gargan, George 'Gabby' Hayes, Arthur Hoyt, Paul Hurst, Edward Keane, Charles Lane, Edward LeSaint, Warren Hymer, Edwin Maxwell, Lafe McKee, Frank McLure, George Meeker, Mayo Methot, James Millican, Bert Moorhouse, Jack Mower, Louis Natheaux, Dennis O'Keefe, Bud Osborne, Franklin Pangborn, Barnett Parker, William Phillips, Paul Porcasi, Christian Rub, Hal Price, Charles C. Wilson, Steve Clark, Pierre Watkin, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Jameson Thomas, John Tyrrell, Frank Austin, John W. Austin, Louise Bates, Bobbie Beal, Georgie Billings, John Binns, Wyrley Birch, Beatrice Blinn, Katherine Block, Sammy Blum, Joe Bordeaux, Harry C. Bradley, Charles Brinley, Hal Budlong, Vera Burnett, Fred Cady, Mary Jane Carey, James Carlisle, Jack Cheatham, Jack Rube Clifford, James Conaty, Georgie Cooper, Thomas A. Curran, Beatrice Curtis, Boyd Davis, Helen Dickson, Rita Donlin, Walter Downing, Tex Driscoll, Adabelle Driver, Paul Everton, Florence Dudley, Bobby Dunn, Peter Duray, Janet Eastman, Oliver Eckhardt, Jay Eaton, Carlton Griffin, Adolph Faylauer, Robert Ellsworth, Juanita Fletcher, Octavio Giraud, Jack Hatfield, Chuck Hamilton, Sherry Hall, Frank Hammond, Sam Harris, Beth Hartman, Ralph McCullough, Althea Henley, Al Herman, Harry Holden, Charles Herzinger, Lew Hicks, Fay Holderness, Frank Holliday, Gladden James, Eddie Kane, William Irving, Arthur Stuart Hull, Alphonse Martell, Frederick Lee, Stella LeSaint, James B. Leong, Mike Lally, Lillian Lawrence, Ann Kunde, Margarete Matzenauer, Margaret McWade, Robert Milasch, Harold Miller, Patricia Monroe, Gene Morgan, Edwin Mordant, Jack Montgomery, Edmund Mortimer, John T. Murray, Henry Norton, Frank O'Connor, Broderick O'Farrell, Peggy Page, Ethel Palmer, George Pauncefort, Gertrude Pedlar, John Picorri, Richard Powell, Arthur Rankin, Ky Robinson, Frederick Roland, Adrian Rosley, Lillian Ross, Anne Schaefer, Margaret Seddon, Harvey Shepherd, Antrim Short, Lee Shumway, S.S. Simon, Kay Smith, Pat Somerset, Harry Stafford, Larry Steers, Bert Stevens, Brick Sullivan, Charles Sullivan, Peggy Terry, Dale Van Sickel, Ellinor Vanderveer, Bess Wade, Pauline Wagner, Larry Wheat, Lee Willard, Jack Wise, Florence Wix, Vesey O'Davoren
About the film
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.
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Director: Jack Conway
4K restoration from safety preservation elements
Director: Garson Kanin
Video format: 1080p Blu-ray
Only Streaming has 1080p
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
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StudioCanal 4K
Director: Preston Sturges
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Indicator Blu-ray > Kino Lorber see DVDBeaver
Indicator is using a different restoration from earlier Kino Lorber Blu-ray and it has much better contrast and slightly better grain resolution
Director: Gregory La Cava
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Although there's a bit of aggressive grain management see https://forum.blu-ray.com/showpost.php?p=15853770&postcount=43
Director: Frank Capra
Director: Frank Capra
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1986 Columbia VHS
Director: Frank Capra
1991 Republic Pictures LaserDisc
Sony Frank Capra Boxset 4K Blu-ray
Director: Dennis Hopper
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Director: David Lean
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The 5.1 on Sony 4K Blu-ray is from the 1989 70mm mix. The original is 4-track. not on the disc.
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Original Stereo mix: Columbia Pictures LaserDisc, Sony 4K Blu-ray
5.1 remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray, Sony Blu-ray
Dolby Atmos remix: Sony 4K Blu-ray
Director: Satoshi Kon
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Director: Ben Stiller
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Director: Luc Besson
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2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray vs 2017 Sony 4K Blu-ray (20th annivesary) vs 2025 Sony 4K Blu-ray (Luc Besson Box Set). The first two have totally different texture.
StudioCanal: More natural looking. Better defined grain. The white balance is rather yellow/orange. Some say it is closer to the original theatrical release.
2017 Sony: More vibrant and impactful. The white balance is rather neutral. While color noise and grain can look busy because it had been sharpened and had micro-contrast boosted.
2025 Sony: Supposedly an improved version of the 2017 release? Shows around 20mbps-higher overall video bitrate. caps
2007 Sony Blu-ray or LaserDisc AC3? (TBC) https://fanrestore.com/thread-7303.html
The Atmos on the Sony release is reportedly better than StudioCanal's.
Disc info of the box set discs. This film have recieved multiple encode/versions in different regions over the years. The 2017 Germany4K Blu-ray is encoded differently than the 2017 Sony but not better. Also, the same can be said to 2024 France Gaumont 4K Blu-ray while comparing to the 2020 StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray. The StudioCanal 4K Blu-ray omits all the extras from previous releases, being barebones.
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