Direction: Frank Capra

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Donna Reed · Lionel Barrymore · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel shows up to give him a tour of the world without his presence, and...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Lionel Barrymore · Edward Arnold

Synopsis The stenographer Alice Sycamore is in love with her boss Tony Kirby, who is the vice-president of the powerful company owned by his greedy father Anthony P. Kirby. Kirby Sr. is dealing a monopoly in the trade of weapons, and...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Cary Grant · Priscilla Lane · Peter Lorre · Raymond Massey

Synopsis In Arsenic and Old Lace (1944), a drama critic discovers his sweet but eccentric aunts have a sinister secret involving their charitable acts. As he prepares for his wedding, he uncovers their macabre hobby, leading to chaotic and darkly comedic...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Clark Gable · Claudette Colbert · Walter Connolly · Roscoe Karns

Synopsis It Happened One Night (1934) follows a spirited runaway heiress, Ellie Andrews, who escapes her controlling father to reunite with her new husband. On a bus to New York, she crosses paths with Peter Warne, a sharp-witted, out-of-work reporter. Recognizing...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Jean Arthur · Claude Rains · Edward Arnold

Synopsis Naive and idealistic Jefferson Smith, leader of the Boy Rangers, is appointed on a lark by the spineless governor of his state. He is reunited with the state's senior senator--presidential hopeful and childhood hero, Senator Joseph Paine. In Washington, however,...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Jean Arthur · George Bancroft · Lionel Stander

Synopsis When a small-town idealist (Gary Cooper) goes to New York to collect a twenty million dollar inheritance, he finds romance with wisecracking journalist (Jean Arthur). Suddenly, he becomes the target of ruthless businessmen and relatives.

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Gary Cooper · Barbara Stanwyck · Edward Arnold · Walter Brennan

Synopsis Gary Cooper stars as a nobody hired by a newspaper as part of a stunt to play a man that says he will commit suicide Christmas Eve because he's tired of how people have forgotten each other. Barbara Stanwyck stars...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Glenn Ford · Bette Davis · Peter Falk · Hope Lange

Synopsis Apple Annie is a beggar and an apple seller who is part of downtown New York life. Her daughter, Louise, is to marry a Count who thinks that Annie is a part of New York society...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Ronald Colman · Jane Wyatt · John Howard · Edward Everett Horton

Synopsis On 1935, the pacifist British diplomat and future Foreign Secretary Robert Conway helps a group of ninety Westerns white people to escape from the Chinese city of Baskul after the beginning of a revolution. He leaves the airport in the...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warren William · May Robson · Guy Kibbee · Glenda Farrell

Synopsis Story of a soft-hearted gangster who organizes his entire gang of thugs to help transform an elderly, rather seedy apple vendor into a perfect society lady. This treatment of a Damon Runyon story was, next to "It's a Wonderful Life,"...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Walter Huston · Pat O'Brien · Kay Johnson · Constance Cummings

Synopsis It's the 1930s, the Depression era, and the Board of Directors of Thomas Dickson's bank want Dickson to merge with New York Trust and resign. He refuses. One night, Dickson's bank is robbed of $100,000. The suspect is Matt Brown,...

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Synopsis Documentary revealing the nature and process of the fight between the Soviet Union and Germany in the Second World War.

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Nils Asther · Walter Connolly · Gavin Gordon

Synopsis The American missionary Megan Davis arrives in Shanghai during the Chinese Civil War to marry the missionary Dr. Robert Strife. However, Robert postpones their wedding to rescue some orphans in an orphanage in Chapei section that is burning in the...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · David Manners · Sam Hardy · Beryl Mercer

Synopsis Stanwyck's particularly fine as evangelist Florence "Faith" Fallon, who becomes very successful thanks to her way with words, some fake miracles, and the talents of shady promoter Hornsby (Sam Hardy). After blind ex-pilot John Carson (David Manners) hears her on...

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Spencer Tracy · Katharine Hepburn · Van Johnson · Angela Lansbury

Synopsis Kay Thordyke loves Grant Matthews and helps him become Republican nominee for President. The party machine begins to worry as Grant begins to speak for himself. At an important dinner his wife Mary condemns corrupt politicians and Grant learns to...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Barbara Stanwyck · Adolphe Menjou · Ralph Bellamy · Dorothy Peterson

Synopsis On a cruise to Cuba, Lulu Smith falls in love with Bob Grover. Back home, she breaks off the romance when he tells her he is married. Lulu has a baby, but doesn't tell Bob, who turns out to be...

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Synopsis In this installment of the Why We Fight propaganda film series, we see the events of Nazi Germany's diplomatic and military acts of international aggression. One by one, we learn of the Nazi's consistently underhanded and relenting violation of every...

Direction Frank Capra · Anatole Litvak

Synopsis The Official World War II US Government account of Chinese defense against Japanese aggression.

Direction Frank Capra

Cast Warner Baxter · Myrna Loy · Walter Connolly · Helen Vinson

Synopsis This comedy-drama was directed, and then -- over twenty years later -- remade, by Frank Capra. Dan Brooks cares more about his thoroughbred Broadway Bill than for his wife Margaret or his job at father-in-law J. L. Higgins's business. When...