
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
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- Year:
- 1936
- 115 min
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FADE IN:
EXTERIOR - MONTAGE 1. QUICK SHOTS OF A CAR SPEEDING AROUND
CURVES IN A MOUNTAINOUS REGION. THE CAR JUMPS A BRIDGE,
HURTLES INTO SPACE, CRASHES IN A FIREBALL. FOLLOWED BY
NEWSBOYS HAWKING SPECIAL EDITIONS, PEOPLE ON STREETCORNERS
BUYING AND READING NEWSPAPERS WITH A SUCCESSION OF BANNER
HEADLINES:
"MARTIN W. SEMPLE, FINANCIER, DIES IN ITALY,"
"CIVIC LEADER KILLED IN AUTO ACCIDENT,"
"DISCLOSURE OF BANKER'S WILL AWAITED" AND FINALLY "SEMPLE
DISSOLVE TO:
INTERIOR - EDITOR'S OFFICE, DAILY MAIL
2. CLOSE SHOT
of Mac, the editor, at his desk, barking into the telephone.
MAC:
Say listen, Corny, who do you think
you're talking to? If the Semple
attorneys don't know who the heir
is, who does?
(listens)
Aw, come on Corny, I've done you a
lot of favors. What do you say -
who's getting the Semple dough?
CUT TO:
INTERIOR - CEDAR'S PRIVATE OFFICE
3. CLOSE SHOT
Of Cornelius Cobb - a hardened ex-newspaperman, customarily
impatient, grouchy and nervous - victim of the New York
tempo. His friends call him "Corny."
COBB:
(on the phone)
You're asking the wrong guy, Mac.
I'm only a press agent.
THE CAMERA PULLS BACK GRADUALLY TO REVEAL a plush law
office, leather chairs and shelves of books. Arthur Cedar,
attorney, briskly enters scene and seats himself at his
desk. Cedar is in the neighborhood of fifty - grey-templed -
dignified - sharp. Cobb is using the phone on his desk.
Cedar glances at him.
CEDAR:
Newspaperman?
COBB:
(covering mouthpiece -
confidentially)
Wants to know who the heir is.
CEDAR:
(firmly)
Hang up.
COBB:
(returning to the
phone)
Sorry, Mac, I can't. Yeah, Mac.
Sure, but I ain't the attorney—
CEDAR:
(more firmly)
Hang up.
THE CAMERA PULLS BACK FURTHER TO REVEAL another attorney
at one end of the desk, reviewing a pile of papers.
COBB:
(continuing)
Mr. Cedar is, and I haven't seen
him in two days.
(hangs up the phone)
Listen, Cedar, we've got to do
something about the newspapers.
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