When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
Verdict: Hit
> Steven Brill (Director)
> Peter Lyons Collister (Director of Photography)
> Jon Mallard (Second Second Assistant Director)
> Carla Bowen (Second Assistant Director)
> Gary Marcus (First Assistant Director)
> Marlene Arvan (Second Assistant Director)
> Tim Herlihy (Screenplay)
> Robert Riskin (Original Film Writer)
> Clarence Budington Kelland (Short Story)
