I grew up in a small country town

Rating: Null/10 (25 August 2011)

James Stewart's magnum opus, as Stewart plays a manager of a Savings and Loans in midwest USA, pursued by the "Big Man" of the town.
Stewart saves the institution (rather pointlessly in my opinion) from ruin during the depression but things come to a head after the War.
The morality seems confused - for instance saving a murderous pharmacist - possibly in a convoluted effort to avoid the film looking "socialist".
He decides to commit suicide for the Life insurance money, but an angel shows him what it would be like if he hadn't lived – a town full of honky tonk joints, loose women and fast living (Go knock yourself out, Jimmy !)