Posted on 12/27/2015 3:53:30 PM PST by Kaslin
It’s a nice movie, but I never had any particular closeness to this film. I grew up looking at Miracle of 34th St. in Black & White. THAT was the Christmas Movie my whole family used to watch every year, then Charlie Brown came along, followed closely by Burl Ives and Rudolph.
When was the story of the little boy wanting a b.b. gun for Christmas first shown. I cannot even remember the title.
The most heartbreaking part about “It’s A Wonderful Life” is that it depicts America as it once was and shall never be again.
A Christmas Story
Pay more attention to Potter and you can see it.
I like what “Artie” on THE KING OF QUEENS said about the movie. The town was jumping when he wasn’t there but was boring when he showed up. “I wish he’d never been born!”
SNL did a skit and shows George kicking Potter’s butt. I always wondered how he got away with stealing the money.
But I do love the movie. It reminds me of my older brother.
[[When was the story of the little boy wanting a b.b. gun for Christmas first shown. I cannot even remember the title.]]
A Christmas Story (1983)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/
Every time Hillary speaks a moonbat in hell has its wings burned off!
We watch this every year. For me, it’s the fifth-best Christmas movie, after Ralphie, Alistair Sim (with a cameo by John Steed), Charlie Brown, and Miracle (John Payne is a much cooler version of Kevin Spacey, and I love the way Maureen comes home unbothered by the fact that her daughter is hanging out with an adult man next door, and a pipe smoker at that).
Am I the only one who thinks each time I watch it that “maybe this is the year George will get away”?
And each year Uncle Billy seems like more of a DB. Come to think of it, he does look a little like Barney Frank.
Lionel Barrymore (Stagename for Lionel Herbert Blythe 1878-1954) as Mr Potter is an excellent choice of an actor. Interestingly enough, he also voice-performed Ebeneezer Scrooge on an annual radio broadcast of Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol!”
I also think that it is a great choice by Capra to leave unresolved the missing money. It just makes Mr Potter that much more evil!
I will have to see the ‘new’ trailer, Jimmy Stewart’s ‘desperation performance’ was as good as any I know of, not surprising for his ‘everyman’ appeal!
FYI: Given the number of shop bells and phone bell sounds, if this quote is correct; “Look, Daddy. Teacher says, every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings.”, then there are a LOT OF WINGED ANGELS!
She hasn’t changed much
A Christmas Story
First shown in 1983....not even close to being a classic
I always watch
1951 A Christmas Carol
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Bishop’s Wife
1947 Miracle on 34th Street
White Christmas
Let me see those and my holidays are complete
Not true. Don’t know where you live but throughout the state of Georgia there are wonderful stories such as this happening every day....plus the news covers them
That’s the major plot flaw of the film. He gave a pile of the bank’s money to a guy who can’t remember what he did with it. Oops.
My Christmases are not complete without watching this movie. It may be because of one particular year, when my husband and I were newly married. We were living paycheck to paycheck on a very small income, and I was pregnant with our first child. We had no idea how we would be able to pay the doctor and hospital bills. This movie gave us courage to keep fighting the good fight, live a modest life, and be thankful for everything the good Lord gave us.
No Holiday Inn 1942?....
Phil Hartman as Uncle Billy and Jann Hooks as Mary Hatch/Bailey, r.i.p....
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