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YT EDIT IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946) | FIRST TIME WATCHING | MOVIE REACTION
🕑 Added 2023-12-23 19:20:49 +0000 UTC
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Kristin D
Bell, Book and Candle is a fun movie! I just saw that recently. re: Tom Hanks, they should watch the The Shop Around the Corner and then watch You've Got Mail.
David Croft-Ogawa
Thank you, I love that film. The book, “All About, All About Eve,” has the extraordinary screenplay and the back story of the writing process. It’s written by the writer/director.
Goose VF-1
Merry Christmas! This is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen
Mairn
I just looked this up recently. There was a life magazine in the 80s with photos of old time legend actors and their modern day counterparts. Jimmy Stewart and Tom Hanks were photographed together.
Jeff Mills
Merry Christmas, Amber and Jay! This movie is a classic and one of the best Christmas movies. I would describe it as “A Christmas Carol” meets “The Twilight Zone”. My late maternal grandfather often was told he looked like Jimmy Stewart. He was my grandfather’s favorite actor and he’s mine, too. This movie never fails to get me choked up towards the end.
Michael J Paulus
I remember a Christmas, probably 1988, It's a Wonderful Life was on 5 different channels at the same time. On the cable package we had at that time we got fewer than 30 channels.
Karen Silvera
I second that yes 😀
Karen Silvera
Yeah, it was only when it was released on TV every year at Christmas that it became a classic!
Kristin D
All about Eve is a very interesting movie, good suggestion.
David Croft-Ogawa
It’s so wonderful to see you guys learning to appreciate the black and white classics. Movies back then relied on the strength of the narrative rather than today, where there’s more reliance upon special effects. If you want to see a great classic, Oscar winning film, watch “All About Eve.” So wonderful to experience your reactions. I hope you and your family have a wonderful holiday.
Kristen DePizzo
My grandma met a young Jimmy Stewart! He was in town in Pennsylvania to see his sister, who lived in the same apartment building as my grandma. He ended up knocking on her door and waiting with my grandma in her apartment because his sister wasn’t home. She served him a Coke and said he was a gentleman. He’s a huge favorite in our family.
Jon
The thing he's wishing for a million dollars on is an old-fashioned cigar lighter. The run on the bank (where everyone tries to get their money back because it might go out of business), was after the stock market crashed in 1929, the start of the great depression.
Robert Greffey
I hate to be that guy, but actually…. Lionel is Drew’s great-uncle. With so many famous Barrymore’s, it’s easy to mix them up.
Robert Greffey
I have often thought of Tom Hanks as the modern day Jimmy Stewart. Had Tom been born 50 years earlier, he could have had Jimmy’s career.
Toby Smith
Tom Hanks reminds me of Jimmy Stewart as both are very likeable people. Jimmy Stewart has alot of great movies "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" "Philadelphia Story" "Rear Window" "Bell, Book & Candle" and "Harvey"
EmberCello
So glad you loved this film like I hoped you would. Merry Christmas!
Robert Greffey
You're forgetting to count Psycho among your black & white flicks on the channel, which makes for 2 1/4 by my reckoning. And since I mentioned a Hitchcock film, I'd feel remiss if I didn't mention that Jimmy Stewart (George Bailey) stars in two of my favorite Hitchcock movies, Rear Window, and Vertigo. Not that there's any shortage of good non-Hitchcock titles to his name. Some of my other favorites from Stewart's epic career might include Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, The Shop Around the Corner, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance, and Harvey. This film bombed at the box office during its theatrical run, and did not have its copyright extended, allowing the film to fall into the public domain in 1974. It might have been lost to obscurity were it not for one thing: Advertisers don't like paying to run commercials on Christmas day when TV viewership is very low. So TV stations took a loss running any programming they had to pay for. But It's a Wonderful Life was not only Christmas themed, but being in the public domain, it was free for any TV station to run. And so they ran the crap out of it. Eventually enough people saw it and realized the bomb was really a gem overlooked in its own time that it has become the indispensable classic we know it as today. Many great films don't "find their audience" until they make their way into the home entertainment realm, but this may be the first and greatest to do so. Through a rather dubious legal maneuver, Paramount Pictures has said to have "reclaimed" the copyright. It's a claim that would surely be destroyed in court, but no one's eager to spend that much money on lawyers to make something free for everyone else to use too. So it has largely gone unchallenged.
Mary Alice
I knew you would like this one! My favorite. I watch it every year because it just provides the right message for the holiday season.
Mary Alice
Did you notice the cops names are Bert and Ernie?
Toby Smith
Lionel Barrymore is Drew's great grandfather. Besides her talk show, she was the little girl in ET. I'm glad you liked this classic film.
Steve Miller
Jay: I am going to try not to sniffle. Steve: Good luck with that,
Kristin D
Yes for Harvey!!
Christopher Puttre
So Happy you enjoyed it. Lionel Barrymore is Drew Barrymore's Great Grandfather. Jimmy Stewart is a Hollywood Legend. Believe it or not this was a Box office Flop. Merry Christmas to the entire RSR Family
Toby Smith
Yes, and for Easter - "Harvey" with James Stewart (big invisible rabbit
Patty Estrada
Can’t wait to watch this later on. James Stewart is great, watch “Vertigo” and “Rear Window” for more of his movies. Both are from the master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock. #Merry Christmas RS family! 🎄
