I haven’t written much about Capra’s comedies so far because so much has been written about them already that it’s hard to screen out the noise and to say something new. For the record, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town was revelatory for me when I first saw it some fifty years ago. It was theContinue reading “Lady for a Day (1933)”
Category Archives: Frank Capra
Arsenic and Old Lace (1943)
Arsenic and Old Lace was the first Capra comedy I ever saw, long before I cared about who Frank Capra was. As a young teenager watching a Halloween special, I thought it was howlingly funny. When I watched it again as an adult, I thought it was pretty bad. Nowadays, I still think it’s oneContinue reading “Arsenic and Old Lace (1943)”