Daily Dialogue — December 25, 2017

“To my big brother, George. The richest man in town.”

— It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), screenplay by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett and Frank Capra, story by Philip Van Doren Stern

Trivia: Two of the writers called the finished film “horrid” and refused to see it when it was released. The only one of Clifford Odets’ ideas to appear in the finished script was George preventing Mr. Gower from poisoning a boy with the wrong vitamin pills.

Dialogue On Dialogue: The movie centers on George’s crisis of faith, but pivots when the citizens of Bedford Falls demonstrate their belief in George by coming to his ‘rescue’ at the end.

To read an excellent analysis of It’s a Wonderful Life by film critic and writer Kim Morgan, go here.

Merry Christmas, all!