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Frank Capra
Writer 1897 - 1991

Frank Capra

Bisacquino, Sicilia, Italia

Frank Russell Capra (born Francesco Rosario Capra; May 18, 1897 – September 3, 1991) was a Sicilian-born American film director and a creative force behind a number of films of the 1930s and 1940s, including It Happened One Night (1934), Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936), You... Read full bio →

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Westward the Women

Westward the Women

William A. Wellman 1951 1h 58m 8.5

There's a deficit of good, honest women in the West, and Roy Whitman wants to change that. His solution is to bring a caravan of over 100 mail-order brides from Chicago to California. It will be a long, difficult and dangerous journey for the women. So Whitman hires hardened, cynical Buck Wyatt to be their guide across the inhospitable frontier.

It's a Wonderful Life

It's a Wonderful Life

Frank Capra 1946 2h 11m 8.9

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would had been like if he never existed.

Forbidden

Forbidden

Frank Capra 1932 1h 25m 6.0

A librarian takes a cruise and falls for an unobtainable man, a district attorney married to an invalid.

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Harry Edwards 1926 1h 2m

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.

Saturday Afternoon

Saturday Afternoon

Harry Edwards 1926 27m

Harry and his friend have planned to go out for an afternoon of fun. But first, Harry must figure out how to slip away from his domineering wife with some money to spend...

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