It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

★★★★★

It's A Wonderful Life is a 1946 film directed by Frank Capra, starring James Stewart as George Bailey, Donna Reed as Mary, and Lionel Barrymore as mean old Mr. Potter.

With help from the angel, Clarence (Henry Travers), George has been given the chance to see how things would be if he had never been born, and furthermore discovering he really did have a wonderful life.

It's the feel-good motion picture. Leaving you with a heartfelt feeling that no one is insignificant, miracles can happen, and every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings. Why, it's full-blown Capraesque!

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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

★★★★★

Arsenic and Old Lace is a 1944 dark comedy, directed by Frank Capra, and starring Cary Grant as Mortimer Brewster. After having just wed his sweetheart Elaine (Priscilla Lane), Mortimer returns home to his quirky Aunts, Abby (Josephine Hull), Martha (Jean Adair), and bizarre brother Teddy (John Alexander).

When discovering a corpse under the window seat in the Brewster sisters home, and assuming that Teddy did it, Mortimer confronts his Aunts, only to find that they have been taking in lonely old men and poisoning them to bring the gentlemen peace, while doing away with their bodies in the basement. Bigger problems arise when Mortimer's other brother, Jonathan (Raymond Massey), and plastic surgeon companion Dr. Einstein (Peter Lorre), arrive.

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