As one scholar says in the accompanying documentary, “You could spend a lifetime studying 1939.”
The excellent supplements that lends more context to Capra the artist than the film itself.
The Misfits wrangles a very good transfer from MGM but very little else.
Frank Lloyd’s big, astute spectacle can now be seen as a showcase for adventure unencumbered by beasts, blood, or much romance.
Notoriously, Colbert always wanted her left profile to be favored in two-shots, and this was a defining obsession.
An essential set of big-ticket Joan Crawford films.
This is unrepresentative set of films starring one of the five major American screen actresses of all time.
MGM megastars Clark Gable and Joan Crawford headline Strange Cargo, a humid prison break movie that turns into a bald-faced religious allegory.