Frank Capra's take on American politics, starring Jimmy Stewart.
Frank Capra's take on American politics, starring Jimmy Stewart.
The Almighty decides to reaffirm His presence in the universe (the last time He intervened in earthly affairs was to assist the Mets in the 1969 World Series), and selects an agnostic grocery-store manager to be His messenger. Discourse between mere mortals and the deities has been a comic convention …
A runty basketball phenom from Colorado, all smiles and yes-sirs, stumbles starry-eyed into the ruthless world of big-time college athletics (UCLA, thinly disguised). In reality, hayseeds like this fellow do not come from Colorado, but come only from Frank Capra movies (his teammate slips him one pep pill during practice …
Dolly Parton, hick from the sticks, is applying for a receptionist job at a Chicago radio station when, through mistaken identity, she is whisked onto the air as a call-in psychologist. (The psychologist for whom she is mistaken never does turn up.) The premise recalls the anybody-can-be-a-therapist idea of The …
The title, together with a tiny fraction of the footage, comes from Frank Capra's series of seven WWII propaganda films. The reappropriation is, needless to say, ironic. Eugene Jarecki, maker of The Trials of Henry Kissinger, adduces no less definite reasons why, just less noble ones. In a nutshell: the …