Magic Town (1947) - (Movie Clip) Evils Of The Modern Era

Magic Town (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Hunting For That Shortcut

First scene for top-billed James Stewart as “Rip” Smith, independent Manhattan opinion pollster whose radical business model is failing, with assistants (Ned Sparks, Donald Meek) and his big shot office building neighbor (Selmer Jackson) dangling a job offer, in Magic Town, 1947, from producer Robert Riskin’s story and screenplay.

Magic Town (1947) -- (Movie Clip) Upon Further Examination

“Rip” Smith (James Stewart), a poll-taker posing as an insurance agent in Grandview, which he believes is the perfect model American town, tangles with Jane Wyman as Mary, acting editor of the local paper, who criticized his earlier intrusion on a town meeting, her kid brother (Mickey Roth), dazzled by his hoop skills, interrupting, in Magic Town, 1947.