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sun
12-21-2004, 04:36 PM
It's a Wonderful Life (1946 (http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Years/1946))

http://ia.imdb.com/media/imdb/01/I/20/42/91m.jpg (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/photogallery) Directed by
Frank Capra (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0001008/)

Writing credits
Philip Van Doren Stern (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0827821/) (story)
Frances Goodrich (http://us.imdb.com/name/nm0329304/) ...
(more) (http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0038650/fullcredits#writers)

If you click on the x, you will get some stills from the film, after all it is Christmas time..one of my all time favs...Stuart:) , ps. made little or no money at the bo.

BonyT
12-21-2004, 07:41 PM
It's A Wonderful Life, my all-time favorite Christmas movie -- although I'm not actually one who grew up watching it; some buddies in college first introduced me to it. Ever since then, it's been a family tradition to watch it every Yuletide. We also watch two other films that, amazingly, I also didn't encounter (at least in these versions) until adulthood: the 1951 British production of A Christmas Carol starring the incomparable Alastair Sim, "the once and future Scrooge," the man who simply IS Scrooge forevermore, along with a wonderful perfectly-cast group of actors all around; and the original 1947 Miracle on 34th Street. Edmund Gwenn had the Santa Claus twinkle in his eyes like no one else ever has. Ah, yes; accept no substitutes. :D

My favorite line from It's A Wonderful Life (not surprisingly): at the end, when Harry Bailey toasts "my brother George: the richest man in town!" That's got to be the most superbly achieved emotional culmination of a film ever.