It's a Wonderful Life has a dark backstory that no-one really mentions...Plus Communism!

Digital Spy ^ | 19 DECEMBER 2022 | By Gabriella Geisinger

[Responsibility2nd]

I completely agree.

That movie was on TCM the other night. The only reason I didn’t watch it was I’ve seen it some 5-6 times and I don’t want it to get stale on me by over watching it.

[Alberta's Child]

My one complaint about the movie was that they made a drunken, incompetent lout like Uncle Billy out to be a sympathetic character. That guy had no business working with other people’s money.

If I was a character in that movie and I had an opportunity to help George Bailey out, I would have given him an ultimatum:

“I’ll give you the $8,000 but you have to fire Uncle Billy. I’ll give you $25,000 if you set him on fire on the street outside the Bailey Bros. Building & Loan.”

[Lurker]

I watch it every year at Christmas time.

Myrna Loy was smoking hot. So was Theresa Wright.

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[Antoninus]

I watched it years ago. I didn’t really care for it. It was too depressing.

Funny, I didn't find it depressing at all. It's basically an American rendition of A Christmas Carol. A good man falls on hard times and divine intervention convinces him that his life was not only worth living, but a great gift to all around him.

Interestingly, I saw a notice once that a sequel was planned at one point starring the woman who played George Bailey's daughter, ZuZu. In the sequel, ZuZu's grandson is a complete dirtbag until an angelic visitor shows him how much better the world would have been if he were never born.

[George from New England]

” banks are not your friends.”

I’ve also found over time the same can be said about Credit Unions.

Credit Unions employers and employees overpay themselves compared to the area banks — all at the expense of the ‘so called’ members that own the union. You and me.

[Vaduz]

Based on personal tragedies, thoughts of suicide, thievery, drunkenness and more.

It’s called life more so now then ever.

[Republican in occupied CA]

Typical rich “Christian” banker where I live. Big bucks, extremely conspicuous piety, treats underlings like crap. Know several.

The more someone tells me how pious and/or ethical they are, the tighter I hold on to my wallet.

[BrandtMichaels]

My favorite line:

Harry, Mary, hold him for me!

[Hebrews 11:6]

I’ve read that Lionel Barrymore was very sympathetic and encouraging with Jimmy during filming.

[ansel12]

It sounds like there is much to read about from that movie set.

There must have been a lot of coping and adjusting that year for millions of people, relationships, families, and workplaces, a lot of intensity.