Frank Capra
4 titles · american classical
Populist faith tested to breaking point first. Capra's films are remembered for their uplift but built on despair — the decent man crushed by machinery, rescued at the last possible moment by collective decency.
Signature
- The ordinary individual against an organised system.
- Extended sequences of genuine desperation before any reprieve.
- Crowds and communities as the deciding agent.
- Fast, overlapping populist dialogue.
It Happened One Night
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Arsenic and Old Lace
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