Posted by Larry Gleeson
“An angel is shipped from Heaven to assist a desperately annoyed businessman by displaying him what life would have been like if he had by no means existed.” – IMDb
It’s a Great Life from Frank Capra is a bona fide (Latin for “good religion”) vacation basic. However it wasn’t all the time so. The movie opened to combined opinions on the Globe Theatre in NY city, on December twentieth, 1946. Time Journal, nonetheless, referred to the movie as type of “a beautiful movie.”
When the movie was launched WWII had simply ended and a number of other common truths got here shining by – hope, redemption, and the loving hand of a sovereign God at work in creating a beautiful life for George Bailey.
It was additionally the start of the Crimson Scare. Some critics thought of the movie as subversive resulting from its damaging depiction of a banker, Mr. Potter.
Over the a long time since, nonetheless, Capra’s movie has grown in reputation and is without doubt one of the most beloved Christmas movies of all-time.
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