CINEMA No life is lived as an island: It’s a Wonderful Life*

Bedford Falls, Christmas Eve, 1945. George Bailey (James Stewart) discouraged and believing himself a failure, wishes he’d never been born. The angel Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers), sent to save George from suicide, grants him his wish, and George learns the value of his life, by seeing how things would have turned out without him. This is how we tend to remember It’s a Wonderful Life, the cinematic sibling to Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. But there’s much m…

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