Word: capra
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...picture marks the debut of Robert Riskin, long famed as the screenwriting teammate of Director Frank Capra, as a director as well as author. Following the pattern of It Happened One Night and Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, in which Director Capra established Clark Gable and Gary Cooper as comedians, Director Riskin herein does the same thing for Gary Grant. Good shot: Miss Moore, who shows signs of becoming a skillful comedienne, proposing to Grant in a Mexican jail...
Columbia's It Happened One Night, which was the work of Writer Robert Riskin and Director Frank Capra, proved to the industry that production cost is not indispensable to box-office success. Adventure in Manhattan, which is not the work of Writer Robert Riskin and Director Frank Capra, may conceivably prove to the producers of It Happened One Night that box-office success is not necessarily the reward of second-hand whimsey...
...Deeds Goes to Town (Columbia). Columbia's star team of Writer Robert Riskin and Director Frank Capra are co-masters of a unique kind of U. S. comedy, part farce, part fantasy and part pure hokum, which has been often imitated but never successfully copied since they brought it to the screen in It Happened One Night. This time, in Clarence Budington Kelland's ingenious story about the misfortunes of a humble young man who inherits $20,000,000, they have a perfect show case for their specialty...
...essence of Riskin-Capra magic to defy analysis on paper because it fits so perfectly its proper medium, the screen. In Mr. Deeds Goes to Town it is applied most spectacularly to a courtroom scene in which Longfellow simultaneously proves his sanity and regains the faith in the girl he loves (Jean Arthur) which he had lost on learning that she was the reporter who made him the city's laughing stock. The scene is consequently the funniest as well as one of the most spiritually nourishing cinema climaxes of the current season...
...studio as do few producers. Driving to work in the afternoon in one of his three Rolls-Royces, he stays at his desk until 2 or 3 next morning. A desk-pounding, finger-snapping executive, he has nevertheless learned the wisdom of giving a good director like Frank Capra his head...