On Christmas Eve 1946, George Bailey (James Stewart) is deeply depressed, even suicidal. Prayers for George are heard by the angels. Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers), an Angel Second Class, is sent to Earth to save him—and thereby earn his wings. Joseph, the head angel, reviews George’s life with Clarence. As a 12-year-old boy in 1919, George (Bobby Anderson) saved the life of his younger brother Harry (Todd Karns) after he fell through the ice on a pond, though George got an ear infection that impaired his hearing in one ear. Later, as an errand boy in a pharmacy, George stopped his boss, local druggist Mr. Gower (HB Warner), from mistakenly filling a child’s prescription with poison while grief-stricken over the death of his son from influenza. From childhood, George’s greatest ambition has been to see the world and design bridges and skyscrapers. However, he repeatedly has to sacrifice his dreams for the well-being of others. He puts off going to college to help in the family business until Harry graduates from high school and can replace him at the Bailey Building and Loan Association, vital to many of the disadvantaged in town. On Harry’s graduation night in 1928, George discusses his future with Mary Hatch (Donna Reed), who has had a crush on him since she was a little girl. Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) and Harry then break the news to George that his father has had a stroke. Mr. Potter (Lionel Barrymore), a heartless slumlord, seizes the opportunity to try to …
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Only Mr. Potter could dislike this video
@AprilA715 Two maybe or three.
Mr. Potter could use an angel himself.
@haze555ful How wonderful that you’re alone one of the few to see darkness and call it light, and call it good. “Ye shall be as gods” was the first temptation. I say it’s the only temptation. Dismissing Christianity for a very Gnostic spiritualist materialism is the opposite of enlightenment, but it’s completely in line with the fallen human condition.
What faith is it, again, that describes the fallen human condition so well?
Mr Potter = the soul of the Republican party
Aww, when George prayed it really made me teary-eyed. :’(
God bless Mr. Potter. He is the most Christian man that has ever lived since Jesus the Christ. If only everyone could be more like him, the world would be a better place. NO crime or corruption. I love you Potter!
@haze555ful It’s about God, angels, and the power of prayer to help people. George and Mary are Christians, celebrating Christmas, singing about Christ at the film’s conclusion. Capra was a religious Catholic Christian. The film has much to do with Christiainity, partidularly Christian charity.
@MeesterCrumpet It’s not illegal, but it is immoral.
there needs to be more villians like mr. potter. im tired of movies showing a backstory of villians and showing that they had a bad childhood or something. then they try to get sympathy. sometimes people are just pure evil. mr. potter is just evil.
What is the song playing at the bar around 2:20?
Well, MeesterCrumpet, life is a precious and sacred gift. When society gets to the point where life is a disposable commodity, it will have lost something irreplaceable. For this reason, no society can truly afford to allow suicide to be legal.
Well, MeesterCrumpet, life is a precious and sacred gift. When society gets to the point where life is a disposable commodity, it will have lost something irreplaceable. For this reason, no society can truly afford to allow suicide to be legal.
@ViralMonster I’m not an athiest. I don’t brand myself. And I’m proud that I’m a rational, enlightened person who thinks for themself rather than be indoctrinated like one of the sheep in the herd by baseless, medieval mysticism. Christianity is a something the common folk need because they can’t think for themselves, period.
@haze555ful shut up you athiest pig.
@yashiramarrero23 This film has nothing to do with Christ whatsoever. It’s about people and their humility. There isn’t even any evidence Jesus ever existed, absolutely none.
I think the whole “being against the law to commit suicide” was intended to be a joke… Haha.
6:27 How in the world did Clarence keep his hat on after falling in the water? LOL, must be an angel hat!
Can you believe there are actually people that don’t like this movie? They must be the Mr. Potter type.
i just realized that santa clause 3 sorta stole their concept from this…
@MrInhibitor there are stupider laws out there trust me
@d00deiloveyew he looks oddly like dick cheney
It’s against the law to commit suicide ok that sounds piontless having that for a law
HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ARRESTED FOR DUI
@CesMan83
I can tell you that the villian Simon Barsinister, in the old Underdog cartoons WAS modeled after Mr. Potter. Same voice. Same eyebrows. Check it out
watch?v=n4iodo5K-xY