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Lady For a Day
A gangster tries to make Apple Annie, the Times Square apple seller, a lady for a day.
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So This Is Love (1928)
No relation to the 1953 Grace Moore biopic of the same name, So This is Love was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
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The Miracle Woman
Following her father's dismissal, Florence Fallon (Barbara Stanwyck) assumes leadership of his church where shady promoter Bob Hornsby recognizes her potential as a faith healer. Lured by the money, Florence plays along as Hornsby hires shills to pretend they've been healed, until meeting blind veteran John Carson causes her to have second thoughts. Facing criminal charges, Hornsby threatens Florence with exposure unless she runs away with him. Though John tries to restore her faith by pretending that he can see again, she's determined to confess, until a fight leaves Hornsby electrocuted and sparks a fire that destroys the church, forcing Florence to help lead a panicked congregation to safety before John saves her from the flames.
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That Certain Thing
Director Frank Capra's first feature for Columbia Pictures, the silent That Certain Thing stars Viola Dana and Ralph Graves. Dana plays a poor girl who falls in love with wealthy Graves, the son of a millionaire restaurateur. When Graves declares that he has no intention of going into the family business, his father cuts him off without a dime. With nary a dime between them, Graves and Dana hit upon a moneymaking plan: they'll manufacture box lunches in Dana's kitchen, then sell them to construction workers from the back of her Model T. The box-lunch enterprise blossoms into a big business, driving dad's chain of restaurants into bankruptcy. All is forgiven when Father becomes Graves' junior partner. Lensed for less than $20,000 (the "prop" box lunches saved catering costs!), That Certain Thing was a hit, launching a long and rewarding association between Capra and Columbia.
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The Way of the Strong
Handsome Williams (Mitchell Lewis) is a bootlegger who takes in the down-and-out Nora (Alice Day). Nora eventually finds herself in the middle of a gang war between Williams and his chief rival, Tiger Louie (William Norton Bailey).
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Frank Capra: Mr America
Frank Capra: Mr America tells the story of Frank Capra, a young immigrant who rose through the ranks of early Hollywood to become one of the Great American storytellers and one of the most successful and influential film directors of his generation. His iconic films, including It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and It's a Wonderful Life, offered an inspiring vision of America where ideals win out, integrity triumphs, and ordinary people have their day. The documentary uses never-before-seen footage and audio tapes from Capra's life to examine his career and relationship with America, offering a portrait of a complicated man whose tales of hope in difficult times still speak to audiences today.
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Giganten Buster Keaton
Vakker, prisvinnande hyllest til steinansiktet, komikaren og filmpioneren Buster Keaton, frå den velkjende filmskaparen Peter Bogdanovich. Amerikansk dokumentar.
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Jean Arthur, James Stewart and Claude Rains star in Frank Capra's Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, the award-winning 1939 classic about an idealistic, small town senator who heads to Washington and suddenly finds himself single-handedly battling ruthless politicians out to destroy him. When Frank Capra decided to film the novel "The Gentleman From Montana", he ran into an obstacle Director Rouben Mamoulian owned the rights to the story. Unwilling to sell, Mamoulian eventually traded the material to Columbia on the condition that he be allowed to direct Golden Boy. As Capra began working on the film, now called Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, it was suggested that Gary Copper, the star of Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, take the lead. Capra selected Jimmy Stewart instead and the film solidified Stewart's movie career, garnering him his first Academy Award® nomination. Receiving a total of eleven 1939 Oscar® nominations (including Best Picture and Best Director), and winning one (Best Motion Picture Story), Mr. Smith Goes To Washington is considered one of Capra's, Stewart's and Columbia's finest films. It also marked the end of an era. It was Capra's final film for the studio.
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It Happened One Night
Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert team up for laughs as mismatched lovers in this 1934 screwball comedy classic. Spoiled Ellie Andrews (Colbert) escapes from her millionaire father (Walter Connolly), who wants to stop her from marrying a worthless playboy. En route to New York, Ellie gets involved with an out-of-work newsman, Peter Warne (Gable). When their bus breaks down, the bickering couple set off on a madcap hitchhiking expedition. Peter hopes to parlay the inside story of their misadventures into a job. But complications fly when the runaway heiress and brash reporter fall in love. Directed by Frank Capra, It Happened One Night was the first movie to be honored with all five major Oscars®: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay.
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Du Kan Ikke Ta Det Med Deg
Oscar®-vinner James Stewart (1940 Beste mannlige skuespiller, The Philadelphia Story og 1985 Honorary Oscar®), Jean Arthur, Oscar®-vinner Lionel Barrymore (1931 Beste mannlige skuespiller, A Free Soul) og Edward Arnold spiller i denne klassiske screwball-komedien. Basert på det suksessfulle Kaufman-Hart-skuespillet, You Can't Take It With You ble regissert av Frank Capra og vant to Oscars(r) (1938 Beste film, Beste regissør) og samlet fem andre nominasjoner. Det var Capras tredje Oscar(r) for regissering. Arthur spiller Alice Sycamore, det stabile familiemedlemmet i en uvanlig klan av frie sjeler som faller for Stewart, den jordnære sønnen av en prippen rikmannsfamilie. Midt i all forvirringen gjenoppdager de to ulike familiene livets enkle gleder.
The Matinee Idol
A feature length documentary on the pioneering filmmaker's incredible career and the lasting impression of his films as well as his classic silent film "The Matinee Idol" digitally remastered and putto a stereo score.
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Livet er vidunderlig
George tenker på å begå selvmord. Angelen Clarence har fått i oppdrag å hjelpe George og dermed få englevingene sine. Clarence får høre hvordan George har kjempet for sin hjemby og for sine venner. Clarence tar ham med til byen for å vise hvordan det ville vært om han ikke fantes. Snart innser George at det er verdt å leve og Clarence får englevingene sine.
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Lost horizon
Ronald Colman og Jane Wyatt har hovedrollene i denne påkostede klassikeren om det fortryllende paradiset Shangri-La hvor tiden står stille. Etter nesten 50 år, ble den 132 minutter lange originalversjonen av Frank Capras tidløse mesterstykke, Lost Horizon (basert på James Hiltons bestselgende roman), relansert i 1986. Filmen ble distribuert til hæren under annen verdenskrig og ble forkortet med 22 minutter etter lanseringen i 1937 for å reflektere oppfatningen av kineserne under krigen og for å tone ned filmens pasifistiske budskap. Det tok 13 år med detektivarbeid for filmhistoriker Robert Gitt å spore opp de forsvunnede opptakene. Med feiende flott art direction, er settet til Shangri-La ansett å være det største som er bygget i Hollywood, og det skaffet også designer Stephan Goosson en Oscar (Lost Horizon vant to Oscarpriser: Art Direction/Sett-design og Filmklipp). Filmens budsjett var gigantisk og kostet nesten fire ganger mer enn noen annen Columbia-film på den tiden, et beløp som tilsvarer rundt $ 30-40 millioner i dag. Kassasuksessen Lost Horizon var et avvik fra Capras typiske positive, "amerikanske" tema og fortsetter å trollbinde publikum selv den dag i dag.
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Arsenikk og gamle kniplinger
Mortimer Brewster is a newspaperman and author known for his diatribes against marriage. We watch him being married at city hall in the opening scene. Now all that is required is a quick trip home to tell Mortimer's two maiden aunts. While trying to break the news, he finds out his aunts' hobby; killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar. It gets worse.
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A Hole in the Head
Tony Manetta, the irresponsible but charming widowed owner of a run-down Miami Beach hotel, tries to raise money to save the hotel from foreclosure. However, through thick and thin, one thing remains constant…the love between Tony and his 12 year old son, who ultimately teaches Tony that there is more than one way to measure success. Based on the Broad way play by Arnold Schulman.
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Here Comes the Groom
Here comes Bing Crosby as a reporter with a song in his heart...and room left over for two war orphans. They're Bing's to keep, if he can find a bride in just five days! The legendary der Bingle croons the Oscar-winning "In the Cool, Cool, Cool of the Evening" in this effervescent musical.
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Riding High
The young manager of a paper company gives up his marriage and quits his job to devote his entire life to horse racing, but the overwhelming amount of responsibilities and finances involved with it get him into trouble.
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Livet Er Vidunderlig
After George Bailey wishes he had never been born, an angel is sent to earth to make George's wish come true. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and impacted, and how they would be different if he was never there.
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