Inspiration or horror film?

Rating: 9/10 (14 December 2007)

This piece of Capra-corn certainly inspires a lot of thought. many of us watch it over and over every single year. It's an institution.
But, there are rumblings that it really is a horror film.
George Bailey (Jimmy Stewart) tells his fiancé Mary (Donna Reed), "I'm shaking' the dust of this crummy little town off my feet, and I'm gonna see the world, Italy, Greece, the Parthenon, the Colosseum. Then, I'm comin' back here to go to college and see what they know. And then I'm gonna build things. I'm gonna build airfields, I'm gonna build skyscrapers a hundred stories high, I'm gonna build bridges a mile long."
Mary wishes that he would stay, and he ends up in the Building and Loan with Uncle Billy (Thomas Mitchell) trying to hold off Old Man Potter (Lionel Barrymore). Why didn't he just run off with Violet (Gloria Grahame) and have some fun? Maybe if he had traveled like Harry (Todd Karns) and Sam (Frank Albertson), he might have learned some things that would have helped the whole country instead of just Bedford Falls.
Oh, well, that wouldn't have worked for Frank Capra, but it's fun to dream. While I'm dreaming I just sit back and watch it again.