Miracle Woman

Year: 1931

Grade: B+

Country: USA

Director: Capra

Review

good not great early capra film. stanwyck is really good as is david manners, whom i had never heard of. it reminded me of later films like leap of faith and elmer gantry. the ending is definitely capra. one of the themes that capra works with is the stupidity of the masses. in it’s a wonderful life george is only in his situation because his friend stupidly gives away the money in the envelope to the evil mr. potter. later the masses make a bank run that threatens to tear the bank apart. there’s another bank run in american madness from people who stupidly and selfishly want to pull all their money out because there was a robbery the previous night. in mr. smith goes to washington you see the masses easily manipulated by the media boss who owns the newspapers. in spite of the overwhelmingly gullible populace it seems that capra has faith in humanity and the individual. we’re all in this together.

Watched in theater