Neither the best nor the worst of Capra’s most celebrated films, Lady for a Day is an odd pre-Code tent pole to get the high-def makeover challenge.
Man’s Castle is harsh-spirited, episodic, in a rage over the ghastly injustices of economic privation.
Th soul-crushing horrors of slave labor in the penal system are neatly interwoven into a highly gripping plot.
Time has not blunted the hard-edged anger of Fugitive.
Little Caesar feels stilted when stacked up against its tougher depression-era contemporaries.
An overrated groundbreaker with a memorable lead performance, it’s only vital for the die-hard Warner Bros. gangster series completist.