"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
"It's a Wonderful Life" (1946)
Liberty Pictures / RKO Radio Pictures
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. George Bailey is a small-town man whose life seems so desperate he contemplates suicide. He had always wanted to leave Bedford Falls to see the world, but circumstances and his own good heart have led him to stay. He sacrificed his education for his brother's, kept the family-run savings and loan afloat, protected the town from the avarice of the greedy banker Mr. Potter, and married his childhood sweetheart. As he prepares to jump from a bridge, his guardian angel intercedes; showing him what life would have become for the residents of Bedford Falls if he had never lived."
Genre': Drama, Family, Fantasy
Release date: 7 January 1947 (USA)
Director: Frank Capra
Screenplay by: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Jo Swerling, Frank Capra
Based on: The 1939 short story, "The Greatest Gift" by Philip Van Doren Stern
Music: Dimitri Tiomkin
Cinematography: Joseph F. Biroc, Joseph Walker
Edited by: William Hornbeck
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers
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