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You Can't Take It With You, Frank Capra's 1938 populist spin on the George S Kaufman and Moss Hart play about a family of happy eccentrics, is a great deal of fun, though it significantly rewrites the original work and doesn't represent Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) at his best. Jean Arthur plays a member of the blissful Vanderhof househ old who falls in love with a rich man's son (James Stewart) and brings him into her nutty home. Lionel Barrymore, who played such a bad guy eight years later in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, is the wonderful Grandpa Vanderhof, who addresses God during the dinner p
You Can't Take It With You, Frank Capra's 1938 populist spin on the George S Kaufman and Moss Hart play about a family of happy eccentrics, is a great deal of fun, though it significantly rewrites the original work and doesn't represent Capra (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) at his best. Jean Arthur plays a member of the blissful Vanderhof househ old who falls in love with a rich man's son (James Stewart) and brings him into her nutty home. Lionel Barrymore, who played such a bad guy eight years later in Capra's It's a Wonderful Life, is the wonderful Grandpa Vanderhof, who addresses God during the dinner prayer as "sir" and speaks plainly and beautifully of why it's good to be alive. Capra took this opportunity to rail against big business and champion the common man, but the overall tone of the film--typical for the director's comedies--is buoyant and snappy. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com
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Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Release date: 24 February 2003
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 5035822139435
Tags: Donald Meek (1), Dub Taylor (1), Samuel S. Hinds (1), Spring Byington (1), Ann Miller (1), Halliwell Hobbes (1), Eddie "Rochester" Anderson (1), Ann Doran (1), Russell Hicks (1), Edward Arnold (1), James Stewart (1), Irving Bacon (1), H.B. Warner (1), Mischa Auer (1), Lionel Barrymore (1), Directed By Frank Capra (1), Ward Bond (1), Jean Arthur (1), 1938 (1), Columbia (1)
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