Magic Town

The guy with the dynamite heart meets the girl with the firecracker eyes!

Genres

ComedyRomance

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Rip Smith's opinion-poll business is a failure...until he discovers that the small town of Grandview is statistically identical to the entire country. He and his assistants go there to run polls cheaply and easily, in total secrecy (it would be fatal to let the townsfolk get self-conscious). And of course, civic crusader Mary Peterman must be kept from changing things too much. But romantic involvement with Mary complicates life for Rip; then suddenly everything changes.

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Budget

$--

Revenue

$--

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Runtime

103 mins

Rating

6.7/10

Release Date

07 October 1947

Country

United States of America

Cast

James Stewart

Rip Smith

Jane Wyman

Mary Peterman

Kent Smith

Hoopendecker

Ned Sparks

Ike

Wallace Ford

Lou Dicketts

Regis Toomey

Ed Weaver

Ann Doran

Mrs. Weaver

Donald Meek

Mr. Twiddle

E.J. Ballantine

Moody

Ann Shoemaker

Ma Peterman

Mickey Kuhn

Hank Nickleby

Howard Freeman

Nickleby

Harry Holman

Mayor

Mary Currier

Mrs. Frisby

Mickey Roth

Bob Peterman

Frank Fenton

Birch

George Irving

Senator Wilton

Selmer Jackson

Stringer

Robert Dudley

Dickey

Julia Dean

Mrs. Wilton

Joel Friedkin

Dingle

Paul Scardon

Hodges

George Chandler

Bus Driver

Frank Darien

Quincy

Larry Wheat

Sam Fuller

Jimmy Crane

Shorty

Richard Belding

Junior Dicketts

Danny Mummert

Benny

Edgar Dearing

Questioning Grandview Citizen (uncredited)

Bess Flowers

Mayor's Secretary (uncredited)

Tom Kennedy

Moving Man (uncredited)

Bert Moorhouse

Newspaper Man (uncredited)

Garry Owen

Cigar Counter Clerk (uncredited)

Nella Walker

Grandview Citizen (uncredited)

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