Showing posts with label It's a Wonderful Life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label It's a Wonderful Life. Show all posts

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Middletown Library Announces Holiday Film Series

If you're looking for a little holiday spirit over the next few weeks head over to the Middletown Public Library where they will be showing a classic holiday movie each week between now and Christmas.

Bring the kids after school and let them do their homework or lounge around looking at their favorite books while you enjoy a free movie to get you in the mood for the upcoming December holidays.


Monday, Dec 5th @ 2:30pm: The first in our Holiday Film Series – It’s a Wonderful Life is a 1946 Christmas drama produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story, The Greatest Gift by Philip Van Doren Stern. Starring James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (played by Henry Travers).

Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at its release, it has become a Christmas classic and recognized by the American Film Institute as one of the 100 best American films ever made and Number One on their list of the most inspirational American films of all time.

Next week: Eight Crazy Nights.

Friday, December 18, 2009

Friday Morning Humor: It's a Wonderful Life Lost Ending

Everyone know the heart warming Christmas classic "It's a Wonderful Life" and it's happy ending. The townsfolk of Bedford Falls come to George Baileys rescue on Christmas Eve with enough cash to thwart old man Potter's attempts to finally take over the Building and Loan.

Recently unearthed however is a somewhat more controversial alternative ending that director Frank Capra had cut from the ending of the movie. Capra had no intentions of allowing anyone to see this alternative ending , it was believed to have been destroyed by Capra himself until a copy of it surfaced in some old film collectors attic a few years back, or so the story goes.

I think that you will find it interesting but I hope that it doesn't ruin the holiday classic for you the next time you happen to see it!