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| Released: |
1946 |
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DRAMA
FANTASY
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| Origin: |
US |
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| Length: |
129 |
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ANTI Reviews
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| | | "The latest example of Capracorn." | | (Manny Farber, New Republic) | | | “The weakness of this picture, from this reviewer’s point of view, is the sentimentality of it - its illusory concept of life. Mr Capra’s nice people are charming, his small town is quite a beguiling place, and his pattern for solving problems is most optimistic and facile. But somehow they all resemble theatrical attitudes rather than average realities.” | | (Bosley Crowther, New York Times) | | | "Mr Capra has seen to it that practically all the actors involved behave as cutely as pixies. I suppose it's all meant to show that there's nothing like a real American boy for bringing out the good in the worst of us - perhaps a sound proposition but hardly one that improves by being enunciated in terms so mincing as to border on baby talk... Henry Travers, God help him, has the job of portraying Mr Stewart's guardian angel. It must have taken a lot out of him.” | | (John McCarten, New Yorker) | | | “In its own slurpy, bittersweet way, the picture is well done. But it's fairly humorless, and, what with all the hero's virtuous suffering, it didn't catch on with the public. Capra takes a serious tone here though there's no basis for the seriousness; this is doggerel trying to pass as art.” | | (Pauline Kael) | |
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, Henry Travers 
