No, the point is, in order to get this robe.I've got it! I'll make a deal with you, Mary.Ī car pulls up with Uncle Billy in the passenger seat I've heard about things like this, but I've never thought I would be in one.not in Bedford Falls anyway

Hmmm.A man doesn't get in a situation like this every day. What am I doing? This is a very interesting situation! (This line was repeated by Jimmy in the 1940 film 'No Time for Comedy'). Pop, I think I'll get dressed and go over to Harry's party. Pop, you want a shock? I think you're a great guy. This town is no place for any man unless he's willing to crawl to Potter.

I just feel like if I don't get away, I'd bust. I wish I felt.But I've been hoarding pennies like a miser in order to.Most of my friends have already finished college. It's deep in the race for a man to want his own roof and walls and fireplace, and we're helping him get those things in our shabby little office. You know, George, I feel that in a small way we are doing something important. I want to do something big and something important.

I couldn't face being cooped up for the rest of my life in a shabby little office.Oh, I'm sorry Pop, I didn't mean that, but this business of nickels and dimes and spending all your life trying to figure out how to save three cents on a length of pipe.I'd go crazy. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated) but it continues to weave a special magic. Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming-in the teary-eyed final reel-his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk.

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