While not an official remake of the Frank Capra classic "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town", this film is very reminiscent of it although isn't nearly as lighthearted. With the death of a billionaire businessman, his inheritance goes to a very distant Italian relatives, Karen still, who arrives in America and has to be at a certain place at a certain time in order to receive his inheritance. The attorney for the state, Jackie Gleason, obviously doesn't want to see that happen, and out of the blue, Hill is kidnapped along with Valerie Perrine, a young woman he meets while out enjoying his fortune. Hill utilizes his earthy intelligence to escape his kidnappers and get to where he needs to get in San Francisco (the Embarcadero) along the way in countering eccentrics like Army Officer Phil Wills and jail cellmate Slim Pickens.
The blond and blue-eyed Hill isn't a man of many words, and it's very funny that when he first meets loosen in the Italian restaurant that his family owns, he enacts a shootout with some very young relatives, a scene that is very Chaplinesque in the way it is staged. Hills' adventures are action pack and very amusing, culminating with a fight with his Animes in the Grand Canyon, then parachuting out over San Francisco. It's a feel-good film in many ways, so much different than I expected, and hell with little words scales of film from the veteran actors. Of course, the finale has to be taken with a grain of salt as a lot of the elements of it seemed pretty impossible, but like Gary Cooper taking down the people trying to keep the estate from him in "Mr. Deeds", it's difficult not to root for him like the people do cheering him on as he makes his way to getting his fortune. This may not have made a million bucks, let alone billions, but in retrospect, it's quite enjoyable.
The blond and blue-eyed Hill isn't a man of many words, and it's very funny that when he first meets loosen in the Italian restaurant that his family owns, he enacts a shootout with some very young relatives, a scene that is very Chaplinesque in the way it is staged. Hills' adventures are action pack and very amusing, culminating with a fight with his Animes in the Grand Canyon, then parachuting out over San Francisco. It's a feel-good film in many ways, so much different than I expected, and hell with little words scales of film from the veteran actors. Of course, the finale has to be taken with a grain of salt as a lot of the elements of it seemed pretty impossible, but like Gary Cooper taking down the people trying to keep the estate from him in "Mr. Deeds", it's difficult not to root for him like the people do cheering him on as he makes his way to getting his fortune. This may not have made a million bucks, let alone billions, but in retrospect, it's quite enjoyable.