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The guy with the dynamite heart meets the girl with the firecracker eyes!
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.Read moreLess
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.
The story
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.
Cast & crew
James StewartRip Smith
Jane WymanMary Peterman
Kent SmithHoopendecker
Ned SparksIke
Wallace FordLou Dicketts
Regis ToomeyEd Weaver
Ann DoranMrs. Weaver
Donald MeekMr. Twiddle
E.J. BallantineMoody
Ann ShoemakerMa Peterman
Mickey KuhnHank Nickleby
Howard FreemanNicklebyExplore the crew
- Director
- William A. Wellman
- Writer
- Robert Riskin
- Original Music Composer
- Roy Webb
- Editor
- Sherman Todd
- Editor
- Richard G. Wray
- Producer
- Robert Riskin
- Producer
- William A. Wellman
- Director of Photography
- Joseph F. Biroc