This is director Frank Capra’s classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it’s Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a failure, faces financial ruin and arrest and is seriously contemplating suicide. High above Bedford Falls, two celestial voices discuss Bailey’s dilemma and decide to send down eternally bumbling angel Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), who after 200 years has yet to earn his wings, to help George out. But first, Clarence is given a crash course on George’s life, and the multitude of selfless acts he has performed: rescuing his younger brother from drowning, losing the hearing in his left ear in the process; enduring a beating rather than allow a grieving druggist (H.B. Warner) to deliver poison by mistake to an ailing child; foregoing college and a long-planned trip to Europe to keep the Bailey Building and Loan from letting its Depression-era customers down; and, most important, preventing town despot Potter (Lionel Barrymore) from taking over Bedford Mills and reducing its inhabitants to penury. Along the way, George has married his childhood sweetheart Mary (Donna Reed), who has stuck by him through thick and thin. But even the love of Mary and his children are insufficient when George, faced with an $8000 shortage in his books, becomes a likely candidate for prison thanks to the vengeful Potter. Bitterly, George declares that he wishes that he had never been born, and Clarence, hoping to teach George a lesson, shows him how different life would have been had he in fact never been born. After a nightmarish odyssey through a George Bailey-less Bedford Falls (now a glorified slum called Potterville), wherein none of his friends or family recognize him, George is made to realize how many lives he has touched, and helped, through his existence; and, just as Clarence had planned, George awakens to the fact that, despite all its deprivations, he has truly had a wonderful life. Capra’s first production through his newly-formed Liberty Films, It’s a Wonderful Life lost money in its original run, when it was percieved as a fairly downbeat view of small-town life. Only after it lapsed into the public domain in 1973 and became a Christmastime TV perennial did it don the mantle of a holiday classic., George Bailey, a decent small-town banker learns what life would have been like if he’d never been born after he unwittingly becomes involved in a mistaken case of bank fraud, which threatens his spirit and tests his will to live., Frank Capra’s classic stars Oscar nominee James Stewart as George Bailey, a decent small-town banker who learns what life would have been like if he’d never been born after he unwittingly becomes involved in a mistaken case of bank fraud, which threatens his spirit and tests his will to live until a wise angel compels him to see how his presence has made an incredible impact on the people of Bedford Falls., An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed., James Stewart’s Everyman character finally realises that – yes – life is wonderful and worth living in this inspired, inspiring Christmas cracker., This heartwarming comedy revolves around a large, affluent family as they slowly discover, through many trials, the True meaning of their unit., The wealthy Yam family and their funny web of relationships. Stars Leslie Cheung, Tony Leung, Anita Yuen, Raymond Wong, Teresa Mo, and more., On the verge of suicide, businessman George Bailey is visited by an angel who shows him what the world would have been like if he had never existed. Will this extraordinary experience change George’s outlook?, George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all – and it’s Christmas ! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn’t been for all his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget about suicide ?, A small-town banker learns what life would have been like if he’d never been born after he unwittingly becomes involved in a mistaken case of bank fraud., The must see Christmas drama from Frank Capra with James Stewart that was originally a box-office ‘flop’ that is now considered an all time classic of American cinema.
Q&A :
Q: Who are the main cast members in “It’s a Wonderful Life ” ?
A: The main cast includes James Stewart,Donna Reed,Lionel Barrymore,Thomas Mitchell,Henry Travers,Beulah Bondi,Frank Faylen,Ward Bond,Gloria Grahame,H.B. Warner,Frank Albertson,Samuel S. Hinds,Todd Karns,Mary Treen,Frank S. Hagney,Sarah Edwards,Virginia Patton,Charles Williams,William Edmunds,Lillian Randolph,Argentina Brunetti,Robert Anderson,Ronnie Ralph,Jean Gale,Jeanine Anne Roose,Danny Mummert,George Nokes,Sheldon Leonard,Frank Hagney,Ray Walker,Charles Lane,Edward Keane,Carol Coombs,Karolyn Grimes,Jimmy Hawkins,Larry Simms,Carl Switzer,Harold Landon,Harry Holman,Mark Roberts,Harry Cheshire,Charles Halton,Eddie Featherston,Stanley Andrews,Tom Fadden,J. Farrell MacDonald,Marian Carr,Garry Owen,Lane Chandler,Ellen Corby,Almira Sessions,Robert Peyton,Bert Moorhouse,Al Bridge,Harry V. Cheshire,Eddie Fetherstone,Dick Elliott,Gordon Bau,Emile Kuri,Frances Goodrich,Albert Hackett,William W. Hornbeck,Jack Okey,John Aalberg,Joseph Biroc,Dimitri Tiomkin,Russell A. Cully,Edward Stevenson,William Hornbeck,Joseph Walker,Jo Swerling,Frank Capra.
Q: When Did the “It’s a Wonderful Life” Released?
A: The Movie “It’s a Wonderful Life” originally aired on 1946-12-20 and released in the year of 1946.
Q: What Languages are available to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” ?
A: Is also available in eng language.
Q: Where to watch “It’s a Wonderful Life” ?
A: “It’s a Wonderful Life” is Avaiable on Netflix. as its Netflix Originals.
