IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) | Movie Reaction | First Time Watching | Like An Organ!!!
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- Merry Christmas! The Mrs checks out the classic holiday film, It's A Wonderful Life (1946). Here's her reaction to her first time watching.
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Merry Christmas Everybody!
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
Merry Christmas to you and yours and everyone thanks
Merry Christmas to you two and the little ones. Hope it's a great one for you all.
Happy Holidays!!
Merry Christmas!
" To my big brother, George, the richest man in town ". This movie always brings me to tears.
The end has me crying every single time.
The brotherly love.
How wasn’t that included???
@@rrsafetyThe love that Harry and George had for each other as brothers.
@@judyvalencia3257 I don't know what you are referring too. My comment was about the famous quote not be included in the reaction video.
In 1982, I was on the verge of doing something very stupid. Before I had the chance though, this movie came on the TV. It was the first time I had seen it and it changed my life. This movie is the main reason I am here today to even write this. I watch it ever year and cry and thank God that he placed this movie before me to show me how wrong I was. I hope you get as much from this movie as I did and do each and every time I watch it. I am going to grab some Kleenex now and watch your reaction.
Glad you're still with us. Merry Christmas.
@@possiblepilotdeviation5791 Thank you and Merry Christmas
Glad you stuck around!
Happy that you are still here man. Take care of you @Mick Kjelland
I experienced something similar in 1994- I credit this film and the original "Star Trek" crew films (specifically "The Wrath of Khan") for saving my life, honestly. So very glad to know you were able to find something like this to keep you with us!
35:50 This was the first film Jimmy Stewart made after coming back from his service in the War and it's generally accepted he was suffering from PTSD after some of the things he witnessed and he may have been channelling some of that pain during the darker scenes in the movie. Wonderful man he was. Wonderful.
Stewart didn't think he was up to it. Lionel Bareymore (Mr. Potter) convinced him to take the role.
During the "rock bottom" scene at the bar, Capra was so impressed with Stewart's facial expressions that he had that part of the film enlarged into a close up, if you watch carefully, you'll notice that the close up looks grainy compared to the rest of the movie.
What's funny is I JUST commented about this in another comment. Nicely done!
It’s been many years since I’ve seen this movie. I totally forgot how inspiring it is. Jimmy Stewart was definitely channeling some dark stuff!
Capra was a genius!
Some of my actor/actress friends knew Jimmy very well and say he was the nicest man they had ever met in their lives. What a movie. The more times you watch it, the more you will cry each and every time.
His whole life George sacrificed his wants and even sometimes his health and happiness for others, and at the end, everyone came together to show George that they remember everything he had done for them. It really is a beautiful movie.
I always wonder while watching this movie, how many lost souls this movie has saved. It should be a Christmas -time watching requirement...Merry Christmas everyone...it truly is wonderful life!
I've always thought the moment when she confesses her love to George into his deaf ear one of the most romantic moments I've ever seen. Just strangely touching in its vulnerability.
Lionel Barrymore is Drew's great uncle. There is a long line of Barrymore actors. If you check out their faces, you will notice the jaw line. It runs in the family. Drew as it also.
When Jimmy Stewart is in the bar praying, he was so full of emotion that he started bawling. The take was so good that the director used the take and even had the zoom in on his face with the finished product. Thats why the zoom in on his face looks a little granier than the rest of the picture.
The reason why Jimmy Stewart showed emotion at the bar was because he was thinking of the scenes he experienced and witnessed during the war.
Probably one of the best "emotional/grief" acting moments. Probably because it was so real due to him pulling from emotions from the war.
@@SheaHarris another Christmas movie with real tears is A Christmas Story.
I saw an interview with Peter Billingsly who played Ralphie.
He said he gets asked all the time how he at suck a young age, draw up the emotions to bring tears? Talking about the scene where Ralphie gets pelted with a snowball. Peter responds by say.
Well, you first throw a snow ball at an eleven year olds face and the rest takes care of itself.
it's the anti christmas carol. guy who's always been great suffers through a dark period in his life hand has to be reminded how good he's always been, and how much the people around him love him.
The "crow" was Jimmy the Raven. He was quite the film star in his own right and was insured for the equivalent of thousands of dollars today. In 'The Wizard of Oz' he was the 'crow' that lands, unfazed, on the Scarecrow just before he sings 'If I only had a brain.' Frank Capra cast used him in a movie in 1938 and cast him in all his subsequent films.
According to Wikipedia Jimmy the Raven appeared in over 1000 movies in the 1930s, 40's and 50's!
Jimmy Stewart is one of the best Americans. Not just a war hero, either.
He had among his friends Henry Fonda on the left, and John Wayne on the right.
Because the greatest generation didn't let politics get in the way of friendship.
I've said it before, I say it now... if dead men could serve as President, Jimmy Stewart would have my vote in 2024.
Even dead he's a better man than anybody in Washington today. On either side.
John Wayne and Director John Ford vehemently Disagreed politically Ford was a traditional democrat and Wayne was a dyed in the red Republican, but they were dear friends aNd they had a prolific creative partnership
A dead man is serving as president. The presidency is like a sequel to the 90s movie titled "Four Years at Bernie's".
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Lol! Not gonna lie, that took me a second!
@@thedeepfriar745 Though Ford was pretty brutal with Wayne being a draft dodger,, choosing to be a war hero on screen, rather than in real life.
You mean the "greatest generation" that cancelled the careers of hundreds of people because they may have had a friend who once attended a communist party meeting? No, many friendships were lost irrevocably.
There's nothing that stacks up to these old flicks. They fill your heart and leave you feeling wonderful.
The brilliance of inserting the perfect amount of comedy, into just the right places! And concentrating on what's really important in life.
I think all films pre-CGI seemed to have a purity about them, that's now been lost.
This film has been described as "A Christmas Carol meets Back To The Future". Leonel Barrymore's character was in a wheelchair, because he needed one in real life. The dancefloor with the pool under it is real and is still used today.
Lionel Barrymore and his siblings John and Ethel are often noted among the greatest actors in theater and movie history. Drew Barrymore is John's granddaughter. Two of John Barrymore's best comedic films are Grand Hotel and The Twentieth Century.
Thanks for addressing this. Happy New Year.
“On Borrowed Time” is a great old Barrymore movie but it can be hard to find.
It was just in TCM the other day
I just can't get over how much he looks like Gordon Jump from WKRP.
Grand-niece(?) to Potter? I knew there was something shady about Drew!
Barrymore family has been an established acting family forever. Lionel (Mr Potter) is Drew’s Grandfather’s brother and his Mother’s Maiden name was Drew.
It’s part of the reason Drew started being cast in stuff when she was like 3.
Yeah, the Barrymore's have been acting royalty since before film. Only the Redgrave's come close in terms of acting lineage.
And Drew's father was actor John Drew Barrymore.
I knew it. There are a few families out there like that. One of them is the Coppola family, of which Nicolas Cage is a member. So many people have said I look like him that sometimes I wonder if I'm a Coppola and I don't even know it!
This movie never ceases to pull at my heart strings. It literally stands the test of time.
13:59 That crash wasn't scripted. A stage hand knocked over some equipment and the look of concern from Jimmy Stewart was genuine. Uncle Billy improvised his line and Capra liked it so much he kept it in the final cut.
Just watched it for yhr first time as a 42 year old, i cant stop crying..... Im so grateful for everything...
My too Maya, so grateful for everything! Merry Christmas!
FYI, the kid that's talking to Mary at the dance when George walks up is the same actor that played Alfalfa in the Little Rascals in the 1930's. Great choice for a reaction, Merry Christmas! 🎄
I was going to bring this up if no one else had.
Glad he finally bought a comb
He’s also freckle faced Hanes in White Christmas.
Was just getting ready to comment the same thing. Haven’t seen this in ages, forgot he was in it.
You may not realize how many lives you are touching just by doing what you do! Watching these movies with you both allows us to see other perspectives and gives people who are alone a chance to watch “with” someone else. Thank you!! 🙏🏻
The Martinis were based on Director Frank Capra's own immigrant family. Capra means goat, and so the Martinis brought one with them.
Lionel Barrymore was in a wheelchair in real life because of severe arthritis. The last movie he made when he was still able to stand was the Oscar winning Captains Courageous in 1936. He talked Jimmy Stewart into taking this part.
Sheldon Leonard (Nick) became a producer on such shows as The Andy Griffith Show and Gomer Pyle USMC.
Directed by the great Frank Capra. Was dismissed as 'Capra-corn' for its sentimentality. It flopped at the box office. It's popularity stems
from it going into public domain. TV stations in the 70s needed more Christmas movies and could show it w/o paying for it. It became a classic.
@pushpak Oi ! i'm a Capricorn what 's wrong with us ? we're born during the CHRISTMAS season 😅🌲 oh you mean it was CAPRA -corny ! as in saccharine and too sappy 🤔 who bloody cares it is a classic that still pulls at the heart strings and i thank both cowboy and cowgirl for doing this on Christmas i just love their reactions have a wonderful Xmas HAPPY HOLIDAYS CHEERS.
The snow was created by a new technique developed just for the movie as the usual option of cornflakes painted white couldn't be used as it ruins the audio track and Capra wanted live sound. Snow is key to this film as take note that it NEVER snows in 'Pottersville'. When Clarence takes George to the alternate timeline they cut. the snow stops, and the wind blows the shack door open. It never falls again until he's begging to live again - it's at that moment that you know he's back in the real world of Bedford Falls. Genius direction from Capra. BTW, there was actually a freak heatwave going on during the period of filming which makes the snow all the more remarkable !
Yes, "gar lic eat ers" is/was a slur for Italian immigrants. This movie is such a good lesson for everyone. George actually had everything he ever wanted, and then some, without even knowing. He was an architect and builder, he was doing big things, making a difference, upholding his father's legacy; the only thing really missing was travel. I always figured that, not long after this, George would run Mr. Potter's slums out of business, and ultimately would bankrupt Potter's business all together. Just a couple of years after this, he and Mary would be able to travel, because they would be monetarily solvent and stable, and the kids will be old enough to stay with the grandmothers. George saved literally thousands of lives by simply being who he was, both people he knew and ones he didn't. He figured it out in the end, though. Such a great movie.
I couldn't have said it better
You’ll never know how many people you have helped through TH-cam who may not have anyone or may be feeling down during the holiday season. People like you have a way to make people feel like they are a part of your world, even just in sharing movies together.
Thank you so much PuzzledHopp! We definitely feel like our viewers are part of our little family. So happy to be sharing the holidays with you all. Merry Christmas and/or Happy Holidays!
Lionel Barrymore was the great uncle of Drew Barrymore. It's a family of actors going back to before the movie business. In addition to Lionel and Drew, there's also Ethel, John, Diana, and several others.
In the scene where George and Mary threw rocks at the old house, Frank Capra had hired a sharpshooter to shoot out the window for Donna Reed. He didn't have to. She had played baseball when she was younger, and she had a good arm. She nailed it on the first throw.
When Potter tells George he's playing nursemaid to a bunch of garlic eaters, he was referring to immigrants, particularly those like Martini. Potter looked down on them and wanted to exploit them. George treated everyone as equals, and stood between Potter and his wish to keep these people living in slums. Potter hated him for it.
The creators of Sesame Street have said that Bert and Ernie didn't get their names from this movie. Too bad. It's such a good story that we want it to be true.
If this movie were like A Christmas Carol, Mr. Potter would have been the one visited by an angel, who'd have gotten him to see how wrong he'd been. As it is, Potter went unpunished for his theft of $8000, which is unusual for the time. It may have gone against the Hayes Production Code for Potter not to suffer for his wrongdoing. There's an old SNL sketch that shows an alternative ending to It's a Wonderful Life in which Uncle Billy remembers at the last minute what happened to the money, and everyone in town goes and beats the crap out of Potter. You can find it on TH-cam.
In the scene at the Building and Loan where the woman asks for $17.50, Capra fed the line to the actress without telling Stewart, whose reaction was unscripted, as was hers (she didn't expect him to kiss her). It's one of my favorite moments in the movie.
The goat in Martini's car at Bailey Park was an inside joke by Frank Capra. He based the character of Martini on his own father, who was from Sicily. The word "Capra" means "goat" in Italian.
Too bad drew didn't live up to the acting family's greatness. They wouldn't be proud seeing drew acting as badly as she's been doing. Not to mention doing drugs and such.
Love this movie! The moment Harry makes a toast to his big brother at the end made me ugly cry for like 30 minutes the first time I saw it, haha! Great reaction! Happy Holidays and a happy new year to y’all!
That line gets me every time! The look on George's face is half of it. 😊
I thank you both for this wonderful Christmas gift !!!
Your laughter is contagious !!!!
I live alone, it in awesome to watch films with you guys, so much better than alone.
Joy and Peace friends.
So glad to have you here watching with us! A true blessing for all of us to have each other!
In 1946 we just got through fighting a brutal war against Germany, Japan and.... Italy. "Garlic Eaters" was one of the better things Italian immigrants were being called in those days.
I love how much your wife reacted to the movie! She didn't hold bac her enjoyment of the charming parts and the humor, but I felt she held back during the end where I bawled like a baby! I wished she'd let go, a good cry is cleansing to the soul.
Merry Christmas to you and your family. This is the first movie James Stewart made after his military service in World War II. He was a bomber pilot and squadron commander who led two dozen bombing raids in Europe. He was a wonderful American.
Capra actually hired a marksman to shoot out the window glass for Mary's throw/wish. But Donna hit the glass on her very first throw [she had played girl's baseball in school and had a good arm]
Jimmy Stewart actually studied Architecture - so his dream of wanting to build great things was true.
Jimmy Stewart: "the man who shot Liberty Valence" with John Wayne and Lee Marvin. One of the best westerns of all time
Yes, Lionel Barrymore is Drew's Great Uncle. Lionel's brother, John (Drew's Grandfather) and sister, Ethel were also major movie stars.
There was one of the old Dean Martin Roast programs where Stewart was the "Man of the Hour". - Rich Little teaching Stewart how to "act" like "Jimmy Stewart" .
FUN FACT: The scene where Uncle Billy drunkenly stumbled off screen (at Harry’s wedding party) that crash was actually caused by a crew member who had dropped a large tray of props. Thomas Mitchell (the actor who played Billy) improvised the line “I’m alright. I’m alright.” The director, Frank Capra, decided to keep that take in the movie and even gave the crew member a $10 bonus for “improving the sound”.
Will she cry?
-- Yep Lionel is Drew's great uncle I believe. The Barrymore family is legendary in Hollywood.
-- Donna Reed, pride of Denton, Iowa. Won the Oscar for From Here to Eternity.
-- Bert and Ernie?
-- There's a bike shop in the town where I live called Zuzu's Pedals.
-- This ,movie celebrates small towns where friendships last a lifetime nd where "small" things matter.
-- Mary said her wish was for them to live in the house together.
-- My 95 year old mother died last week. She was a teacher and counselor. Many, many people I didn't know told us how she impacted their lives, especially single mothers and other women whom she inspired and helped.
I watch a lot of film reactions - but I've gotta say - you guys are my favorite. You do it in such a way that we feel like we're in the room watching the film with and hanging with you guys. Thank you for all you do.
Didn't see this film until I was about 30. I've made a point to watch it every year ever since. A great movie that shows how one person sacrifices his own future so that many more can have one for themselves. One of those ultimate -karma films during the final 15 minutes. "A toast to my big brother George: The richest man in town." - hits me every time.
Turning their podcast back to color around like 34:00 minutes was awesome.
Lionel Barrymore is Drew’s great uncle.
Merry Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Movies!
Yes, Burt and Ernie of Sesame Street got their names from this movie. You mentioned Burgess Meridith, who played the dad in Grumpy Old Men. Burgess Meridith, Henry Fonda, and Jimmy Stewart were roommates in New York when they were trying to break in on show business. There are a lot of heartwarming stories about Jimmy Stewart that I hope you will see someday.
The Barrymores are a huge family with a lot of actors. Dating back to Drew's great-grandfather Maurice, a British stage actor born in India.
I saw this movie at what I believed to be (at the time) quite late in my life at age 23. At that point I had somehow survived growing up in one of the most dangerous places possible - BedStuy, Brooklyn, knowing that a number of people I knew (and secretly loved) did not get out alive. Sitting alone on Christmas Eve in the safety of the suburbs I had escaped to (in Long Island, NY). Alone without a love, living in the top apartment of a home I had just bought a few months earlier, and a job that was highly paid (for a non-college grad), just wondering what was on cable television that night. This movie had a profound affect on my life at the time. Today, 35-yrs later, when I am down-and-out, this movie comes to mind to remind me things could be worse. My little miracle I suppose. Now having a loving wife, four adult children and two wonderful grandchildren. Thank you Clarence, I hope you have a copy of Tom Sawyer with you when I get to sit and talk with you (not too long from now I would guess).
9:31 “Keep your pants on” - LOL best comment ever on George’s wooing
36:00 Nope. It's a coincidence. The Jim Henson Company and staff who were there from the very early days have always denied the connection to their Bert & Ernie.
James Stewart was a an American hero. He flew bomber missions over Europe and retired from the Air Force a Brigadier General. Much respect. Merry Christmas
Jimmy Stewart was a great leading man of hollywood's golden era. From before the war to after he had an incredible career. Jimmy, Spencer Tracy, Charleton Heston, John Wayne, Henry Fonda were some of my favs
Keep in mind: Mr. Potter screwed George out of $8,000.00 right before Christmas in 1945, which in 2021 would be like if your bank screwed you out of roughly $118,000.00 earlier this week.
SNL did a great "alternate ending" for the movie about 20 years ago...where Uncle Billy remembers Potter being there and the whole town goes to get him 😊😉
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@@ChicagoDB 😂😂😂 I remember that
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I somehow avoided seeing this movie until, like, my junior year in college. One of my film profs screened it for a class I was taking and I instantly fell in love with it.
Fun Facts:
-This is Frank Capra's favorite film that he did.
-Bert & Ernie from Sesame Street were named after Bert & Ernie from this film
-In the sequence where George and Mary throw rocks to hit the glass, A Marksman was hired to shoot the glass when Donna Reed (Mary) threw her rock, but Donna played baseball in her youth so she hit the glass on her own.
-This was the first film Stewart did after returning from WWII
It was a thorough delight watching your reactions to this movie. There are many Frank Capra movies that have the same wonderful balance of character, whimsy and reality and all are recommended. My favorite two are It Happened One Night and Mr. Deeds Goes To Town. I will watch either of these at the drop of a hat.
Thank you for the kind words, Merry Christmas!
Great movie for Christmas day. A lot of younger people refuse to even look at older movies in b&W and they're really missing out. Tom Hanks, everyman is just this generation's Jimmy Stewart.
My dad and I don't have a lot of the same movie loves but this one we do. And it's such a treat to be reminded my dad's human when he cries every time we watch this
I'm glad to see you guys watch this. I've seen it a bajillion times, and one thing that occurs to me this time through, is that George's wish was to have a big impact on the world - but he was only thinking of that in terms of 100-story skyscrapers and mile-long bridges: he was trapped thinking of the most flashy, obvious version of that. And lo and behold, what Clarence showed him was that he had had a huge impact on all these lives, and they rippled out too to countless more - that he had in fact been living his wish his entire life, starting from a very young age. It was just that his lived version was a much more subtle, slow-burn kind, less obvious than having been responsible for designing giant structures. He got the desire of his heart, he just needed to get past his ego in order to see it. And Mary got her exact dream: to be married to him, to have her babies look like him, and to be living together in the Granville house, so hers was more obvious, and in contrast to that it's easy to feel like George got passed over, until we see it in the end.
17:48 Ellen Corbyn was told to 'surprise' Jimmy with her answer. He improvised responding with a kiss and Capra loved it. Incidentally she went on to star as Grandma in 'The Waltons'.
Ellen Corby also had a bit part in "Shane" and wrote screenplays for Hopalong Cassidy movies.
I have seen this movie so many times and I still cry at the end.
The part when Uncle Billy leaves drunk and you hear the ruckus in the background? The sound of metal clattering like trash cans was unintentional. A stagehand off screen dropped some props and Jimmy Stewart couldn’t help but react. The director loved the reaction so much that he kept it in the film. To top it off, the stagehand was credited and compensated with TEN whole dollars! Not too bad for the times … 😅
You asked about Barrymore, and yes, Drew is related. John Barrymore was one of the first premiere Hollywood actors, and passed the talent down. The Barrymore name is like royalty in the film world.
Movie get's better every time you watch it..........makes you appreciate the cushion on your lap rather than the one you might have had. Lovely reaction......Merry Xmas and Happy New year!
Even though I've seen this movie a million times, every year when I come back to it, I marvel at how amazing this movie is done compared to movies today. That part with Mary and George as teens...
I was so afraid she'd not like this... but I was relieved that even the magic of 'It's a Wonderful Life' melts all cynical hearts :)
This was the first James Stewart movie I saw in school when I was 9-10 years old. Stewart's last film was An American Tail 2 in 1991. He passed away due to complications from Alzheimer's in 1997.
He died of a pulmonary embolism
Your laugh is so contagious. 😄
Thank you so much!
I loved that your reaction was done in black and white! This movie never fails to make me tear up at the end; in fact I teared up during this reaction. And all the other reactions I have watched! I am going to be checking out your other reactions soon!
So glad you enjoyed enough to watch some others. Thanks for watching with us on Christmas!! Merry Christmas!
My favorite Christmas movie ever!
You don't need to wait until December for this movie, I watch this any month of the year like any other movie, it's one of the greatest. Fantastic message of self-worth, community, sacrifice, and realizing that being lucky enough to have good friends and family around you is more valuable than the accumulation of wealth or any material wants, the perfect movie with the perfect message.
Other than his westerns and films for Hitchcock, here are some really good James Stewart movies that you might consider: Call Northside 777 (1948), Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962), No Highway in the Sky (1951), Harvey (1950), Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), The Philadelphia Story (1940), You Can't Take It With You (1938) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959).
Where the hell is Rear Window in that list???
This is usually on TV every year so I usually watch it every year.
2:00 Lionel Barrymore is Drew's Great-Uncle, being the older brother of John Barrymore who is Drew Barrymore's Grandfather.
A wonderful treat that gets watched every holiday season in my home. Had the pleasure to meet Jimmy Stewart and Walter Matthau when i was a kid in the mid/late 1980's volunteering for a local organisation that helped WW2 Veterans come back to the East Anglia region of the UK to revisit their former WW2 Air base's. Both were fine Gentlemen and were happy to put up weith a somewhat starstruck kid in tow.. I raise a glass to you both and can't wait to see what reactions 2022 will bring.
Congratulations.
First person in my life I've ever seen who didn't drop a tear.
Lionel Barrymore is, in fact, related to Drew. He is her Great-Uncle.
Great reaction video ! At the start, you two were clearly sceptical, and joking about some of the smaller details. By the end, you were totally invested, and concerned for the characters. This is one of the most manipulative, and best, films of all time (so far). I have been sure to show it to all my children and grandchildren.
One of the greatest movies of all. Sometimes its hard to see how good you really have it but this movie makes you think about what is important.
Happy Christmas guys! 🎅🎄🎊🎉🎁😇🙏
I'm most grateful for my 2 daughters 9yrs old and 11yrs old. Merry Christmas everyone ❤️
At 6:47 when George meets Mary and she is talking to someone (George says to him "Why don't you stop annoying people?") the actor who plays the guy is Alfalfa (Carl Switzer) from the Little Rascals.
That is a really nice touch to do your reaction in B&W. Saw a few other reactors doing this but passed. This is the one I'll try. Let's go.
One of my favorite movies
You chuckled at Bert and Ernie. The Sesame Street Muppets Bert and Ernie were named after these two characters.
Lionel Barrymore (Mr. Potter) was Drew Barrymore's great-uncle. Harry Bailey graduates in 1928 so he's 18, George is 21 at that time and the reason they refer to him as 'this old guy'. Mary is 18. A perennial Christmas movie and a must watch in our house every year for decades. Glad to see younger people find out how good this is.
Fun fact: When uncle Billy crashes into what sounds like metal trash cans off screen, this was actually a lucky accident. A stagehand had dropped some metal stuff and the actor just improvised "I'm ALL right! I'm AAAALL right!" and Jimmy Stewart just rode along with it. Great Stuff, eh?! Oh, and yes. Lionel Barrymore is the great-uncle of Drew Barrymore.
Merry Christmas everybody.
Lionel Barrymore is Drew's great uncle.
Lionel Barrymore was one of the greatest actors of his generation. He makes Potter such a believably-harable villain, he's half the movie in himself.
Amazing how this movie became a staple. Frank Capra had what he thought was a "dud" on his hands when it was sort of ignored in the theaters. Then a mistake was made in the early 70's when they failed to renew the one thing that kept it from the masses....copyright. It was then free to run on TV and as if aided by "Clarence" the public LOVED it and it became "THE favorite" Christmas movie to see - after 30+ years of hiding.... Merry Christmas!
At some point many people question the value of their existence. That we are abject failures. And this tells me that my life, my shortcomings, bad choices, all of it are part of the wonderful life.
so nice to see you smiling and happy. some many cute lines in this movie, and the grimy close-ups of a man on the brink of disaster, send it into another dimension. not too many movies can do humor and drama and romance so smoothly. great movie
Sledding on a coal shovel. My Grandfather had an old coal shovel, somehow the shape actually makes it work great as a sled for when you cannot afford one.
Working on Christmas day? that's some dedication!
when i'm in a melancholy mood - It's A Wonderful Life lifts me up. My favorite christmas movie.
20:23 I interpreted Mr. Potter's "garlic eaters" comment as a racist anti-Italian jibe (remember George is friends with Martini who is an Italian immigrant.)
“Racist, anti-Italian jibe”… big deal!
That’s the trouble these days… snowflakes take offence at the least thing and - more insultingly - by proxy. I’m Italian and I don’t take any offence and I object to others unwantedly taking offence on my behalf!
@@BlueShadow777 You misunderstand me, I wasn't complaining about the movie (which I love) I was just saying that Mr. Potter was makin nasty remark in-universe.
This movie is a timeless classic. Great reaction! Merry Christmas!
Dimitri Tiomkin's main title is one of the greatest pieces of theme music ever written for a film.
Can’t go wrong watching this movie every year for Christmas.
The riff-raff and garlic eaters (Italians) came through in the end.
It’s a Wonderful Life is a movie we watch every Christmas Eve.
Yes. Lionel WAS related to Drew Barrymore. He was her Great Uncle or something like that