Magic Town (1947)

Directed by

William A. Wellman

Genre

romantic comedy

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 32 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A pollster discovers a town that perfectly mirrors the opinions of the whole country. He moves there to secretly run his surveys, but his scheme gets complicated when he falls in love and the town learns the truth.

light-heartedwhimsicalromanticcleverwarmoptimisticold-fashionedplayful

What happens

Magic Town is a 1947 American comedy film directed by William A. Wellman and starring James Stewart and Jane Wyman. The picture is one of the first films about the then-new practice of public opinion polling. The film was inspired by the Middletown studies. It is also known as The Magic City. The "magic" of the title is the mathematical miracle (as it is called in the film) that certain towns can be used to fairly accurately predict the actions of the whole country. This was character actor Donald Meek’s final film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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