“Mr. Deeds Goes to Town” is director Frank Capra’s 1936 evergreen about an everyman named Longfellow Deeds, from the small town of Mandrake Falls, who inherits a fortune from a distant relative.

Now it has been remade as “Mr. Deeds.”

Here’s how the two compare:

MR. DEEDS GOES TO TOWN

The hero: Gary Cooper

His job: Writing poetry for postcards and playing tuba in a local band.

His inheritance: $20 million

His love interest: Jean Arthur, as Babe Bennett

Her job: Newspaper reporter

What they read: fictious paper called the Daily Mail

How they travel: Train

Movie’s rating: None, and there’s nothing objectional in it.

DEEDS

The hero: Adam Sandler

His job: Running pizza parlor and writing greeting-card poetry

His inheritance: $40 billion

His love interest: Winona Ryder, as Babe Bennett

Her job: Tabloid TV reporter

What they read: The New York Post

How they travel: Helicopter

Movie’s rating: PG-13, for language and near nudity