While Frank Capra’s critical reputation was comparatively low during the 1960′s, his excellence as a director is now properly recognized. This delay was in part brought about by Capra’s own withdrawal from the post-television cinema …

During the 1930′s and 1940′s Frank Capra directed a series of populist melodramas, films in which an honest, ordinary man fights the corrupt and powerful, and succeeds only after near failure and public humiliation. In …

“Have you ever dreamed of a place where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?’: Thus reads the opening title card to Lost Horizon, Frank Capra’s dream of Shangri-La, the inaccessible Himalayan Utopia …

It’s a Wonderful Life  is not just one of the greteat holiday movies of all time – it is one of the all time best movies period!

The story behind It’s a Wonderful Life begins …

THE BITTER TEA OF GENERAL YEN
Released: 1933
Production: Columbia Direction: Frank Capra Screenplay: Edward E. Paramore; based on the novel of the same name by Grace Zaring Stone
Cinematography: Joseph Walker
Editing: no listing
Running time: 87 minutes
Principal characters:
Megan …

ARSENIC AND OLD LACE

Released: 1944 (completed 1941) Production: Frank Capra for Warner Bros. Direction: Frank Capra Screenplay: Julius J. Epstein and Philip G. Epstein; based on the play of the
same name by Joseph Kesselring …