One of the most popular and enduring films ever made, Frank Capra‘s It’s A Wonderful Life is a gloriously sentimental testament to homely small-town moral values.
Masterfully crafted, the film opens with angels discussing George Bailey (James Stewart), a man so beset with problems that he contemplates a Christmas-time suicide. As George prepares to jump from a bridge his guardian angel Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers) intervenes and shows him how badly Bedford Falls would be without his good deeds.
