Capra's Best?
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ian959 — 21 years ago(March 24, 2005 07:34 AM)
In order (at least the ones I have seen):
Mr Smith Goes To Washington - still relevant today
It's A Wonderful Life - what more can be said about this classic?
Mr Deeds Goes To Town - Gary Cooper was terrific
Arsenic And Old Lace - one of the funniest films ever made
It Happened One Night
Lost Horizon
Platinum Blonde
You Can't Take It With You
Broadway Bill
Lady For A Day
One of the finest film makers ever, from any nation, any time period. I never tire of watching his films. -
Angel2121 — 21 years ago(March 25, 2005 03:39 PM)
Meet John Doe has always been my personal favorite, though it doesn't look as if anyone agrees with that assessment. Here'a a ranking of my personal preferred order of the ones I've seen so far:
Meet John Doe
It Happened One Night
Arsenic and Old Lace
It's a Wonderful Life
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
You Can't Take It With You
Lost Horizon
That really is in no particular order though, from numbers 3-7 (well, it's how I feel I should rank them right b68now, though), but I absolutely love all of those movies (except for Lost Horizon).
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StayCasual — 20 years ago(May 10, 2005 04:05 AM)
1 Its a Wonderful Life: The finest film ever crafted by human hands
2 Mr Deeds Goes to Town: My favourite of the "trilogy". Gary Cooper brings a kind of cynicism and honesty to a role that could have leaned too much in one direction.
3 It Happened One Night: As much an education for the viewers as Claudette Colbert. A wonderful, wonderful, journey.
4 Arsenic and Old Lace: Very, very funny. An often overlooked Capra classic.
5 Mr Smith Goes to Washington: While it lacks the bite of Deeds it should be credited for its mature embracing of the concepts of the American political system - not the people who enforce them.
Know why that is? We're too busy being smart-alecks. Too busy in a crazy competition for nothing" -
StayCasual — 20 years ago(May 13, 2005 03:25 AM)
For my money Bergmen doesnt really match up to Capra. Smiles of a Summer Night does feel like a poor Capra inspired mess but I still think that at his best Capra made better films than Bergman.
Know why that is? We're too busy being smart-alecks. Too busy in a crazy competition for nothing" -
jimbobway21 — 20 years ago(July 23, 2005 09:56 AM)
For me it is a tie between Mr. Smith and It's a Wonderful Life. However, I also like Arsenic and Old Lace. It is not even close to Mr. Smith and Wonderful Life as far as filmaking goes. I don't know, it's just a fun film that I like to watch.
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csu16387 — 20 years ago(August 13, 2005 04:34 PM)
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
- It Happened One Night
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Arsenic and Old Lace
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
I'm not really a big fan of You Can't Take it With You, though Lionel Barrymore gives a superb performance in it.
"Dry your eyes baby, it's out of character."
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16mmRay — 20 years ago(August 23, 2005 01:53 PM)
I recently ran YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU for a nice crowd. It totally got them. It's definitely different than most of Capra's other pictures of the period because of the play structure. And the slow transformation of Edward Arnold is done brilliantly and realistically, as opposed to J. L. Higgins in BROADWAY BILL and RIDING HIGH.
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Enrique-8 — 20 years ago(August 23, 2005 02:04 PM)
WellYCTIWY was a popular play before CAPRA gave it his golden touch. I saw the play on television before I saw the movie and was enchanted with both with a few things that the stage cannot conjure.
Edward Arnold is just one of the best actors ever.but then CAPRA always brought the best in him and every actor, no matter how few lines they had.
That makes a director GREAT.
Enrique Sanchez -