{"id":16139,"date":"2024-01-31T20:00:23","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T01:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=16139"},"modified":"2024-01-31T19:19:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T00:19:27","slug":"its-a-wonderful-life-1946-frank-capra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/16139","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Wonderful Life (1946, Frank Capra)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Stewart throws away his dreams to run his dad&#8217;s bank while his brother Harry is off being a war hero.  Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell of every great movie in 1939) loses a bunch of money, putting the bank at risk of takeover from evil rival Potter (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/16053\">Mark of the Vampire<\/a><\/em> star Lionel Barrymore).  Jimmy tries to kill himself but angel Clarence (<em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/13247\">The Invisible Man<\/a><\/em> scientist Henry Travers) saves him, shows him that Harry and Billy and his wife Mary (Donna Reed of <em><a href=\"\/journal\/archives\/4188\">Scandal Sheet<\/a><\/em>) and the guy at the drugstore (HB Warner, DeMille&#8217;s Jesus) would&#8217;ve all been ruined without him (Potter would be fine).  The townspeople contribute to pay Jimmy&#8217;s bank&#8217;s debts and he&#8217;s newly happy to be alive.  Good movie while watching, the moment it&#8217;s over I always get annoyed by it again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Stewart throws away his dreams to run his dad&#8217;s bank while his brother Harry is off being a war hero. Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell of every great movie in 1939) loses a bunch of money, putting the bank at risk of takeover from evil rival Potter (Mark of the Vampire star Lionel Barrymore). Jimmy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[416,771,1629,506,640,1326],"class_list":["post-16139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-1940s","tag-angels","tag-capitalism","tag-frank-capra","tag-jimmy-stewart","tag-lionel-barrymore"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16139"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16182,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16139\/revisions\/16182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}