It's A Wonderful Life (Two-Disc Collector's Set) (B/W & Color)

It's A Wonderful Life (Two-Disc Collector's Set) (B/W & Color) Review

My wife had been looking for this movie, in general, for quite sometime. Searching on Amazon and finding a few different versions, I ran accross this nice double-disc version that not only contained an updated color version, but the original black-and-white as well. The item came rather quickly in the mail, in great protective packaging, and my wife's eyes lit up once she had opened it! And to put the cherry on top of the sundae, it came with a little collectors Christmas ornament, which my wife loves to collect during the season. The version was literally "the whole package" for any fan of the movie! It even includes original trailers and behind the scenes footage. Great stuff!

It's A Wonderful Life (Two-Disc Collector's Set) (B/W & Color) Overview

George Bailey has so many problems he is thinking about ending it all – and it’s Christmas! As the angels discuss George, we see his life in flashback. As George is about to jump from a bridge, he ends up rescuing his guardian angel, Clarence. Clarence then shows George what his town would have looked like if it hadn’t been for all of his good deeds over the years. Will Clarence be able to convince George to return to his family and forget suicide?

It's A Wonderful Life (Two-Disc Collector's Set) (B/W & Color) Specifications

Now perhaps the most beloved American film, It's a Wonderful Life was largely forgotten for years, due to a copyright quirk. Only in the late 1970s did it find its audience through repeated TV showings. Frank Capra's masterwork deserves its status as a feel-good communal event, but it is also one of the most fascinating films in the American cinema, a multilayered work of Dickensian density. George Bailey (played superbly by James Stewart) grows up in the small town of Bedford Falls, dreaming dreams of adventure and travel, but circumstances conspire to keep him enslaved to his home turf. Frustrated by his life, and haunted by an impending scandal, George prepares to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. A heavenly messenger (Henry Travers) arrives to show him a vision: what the world would have been like if George had never been born. The sequence is a vivid depiction of the American Dream gone bad, and probably the wildest thing Capra ever shot (the director's optimistic vision may have darkened during his experiences making military films in World War II). Capra's triumph is to acknowledge the difficulties and disappointments of life, while affirming--in the teary-eyed final reel--his cherished values of friendship and individual achievement. It's a Wonderful Life was not a big hit on its initial release, and it won no Oscars (Capra and Stewart were nominated); but it continues to weave a special magic. --Robert Horton

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