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You Can't Take It with You |
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Genre
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Comedy,
Screwball Comedy.
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Year
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1938 |
Director
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Frank Capra.
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Actors
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Jean Arthur,
Lionel Barrymore,
James Stewart,
Edward Arnold,
Mischa Auer,
Ann Miller,
Spring Byington,
Samuel S. Hinds,
Donald Meek,
H.B. Warner,
Halliwell Hobbes,
Dub Taylor,
Mary Forbes,
Lillian Yarbo,
Clarence H. Wilson,
Josef Swickard,
Ann Doran,
Christian Rub,
Charles Lane,
Harry Davenport,
Eugene Anderson Jr.,
Eddie "Rochester" Anderson,
Stanley Andrews,
William Arnold,
Frank Austin,
Dorothy Babbs,
Irving Bacon,
Harry Bailey,
Joe Bernard,
Gladys Blake,
Beatrice Blinn,
Ward Bond,
Joe Bordeaux,
Charles Brinley,
James Burke,
Eddy Chandler,
Wallis Clark,
Chester Clute,
Nick Copeland,
Anne Cornwall,
Nell Craig,
Beatrice Curtis,
Dick Curtis,
Sidney D'Albrook,
Howard Davies,
Lou Davis,
Edgar Dearing,
Vernon Dent,
Kay Deslys,
Homer Dickinson,
Bill Dill,
Lester Dorr,
Florence Dudley,
Roland DuPree,
Oliver Eckhardt,
James Farley,
Betty Farrington,
Eddie Fetherstone,
James Flavin,
Bess Flowers,
Starrett Ford,
Byron Foulger,
Almeda Fowler,
Dick French,
Jack Gardner,
Joe "Corky" Geil,
Jack Grant,
Jesse Graves,
Robert Greig,
Carlton Elliott Griffin,
Kit Guard,
Chuck Hamilton,
John Hamilton,
Sam Harris,
Edward Hearn,
Dutch Hendrian,
Russell Hicks,
Harry Hollingsworth,
John Ince,
Paul Irving,
Boyd Irwin,
Belle Johnstone,
Eddie Kane,
Edward Keane,
Alice Keating,
Pert Kelton,
Louis King,
Bob Kortman,
Bill Lally,
Stella LeSaint,
Margaret Mann,
Tina Marshall,
Edwin Maxwell,
Ralph McCullough,
Eva McKenzie,
Charles McMurphy,
James Millican,
Frank Mills,
Bruce Mitchell,
Clive Morgan,
Gene Morgan,
Wedgewood Nowell,
Georgia O'Dell,
Dagmar Oakland,
Fred Parker,
Blanche Payson,
George C. Pearce,
Edward Peil Sr.,
Lee Phelps,
Hilda Plowright,
Ed Randolph,
Doris Rankin,
Frances Raymond,
Dick Rush,
Harry Semels,
Al Seymour,
Frank Shannon,
C.L. Sherwood,
Ernie Shields,
Bruce Sidney,
Harry B. Stafford,
Edwin Stanley,
Bert Starkey,
Jane Tallent,
Carlie Taylor,
Rosemary Thebv,
Victor Travers,
Laura Treadwell,
John Tyrrell,
Pearl Varvell,
Dorothy Vernon,
Bessie Wade,
Walter Walker,
Pierre Watkin,
Pat West,
Lawrence Wheat,
Bud Wiser,
Ian Wolfe,
Alex Woloshin.
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File
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Runtime: |
126:00 |
Codec: |
dvd-rip |
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700.04 Mb |
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Storyline:
Moss Hart and George S. Kaufman's whimsical Pulitzer Prize-winning Broadway play You Can't Take It With You was transformed into a paean to populism by director Frank Capra and screenwriter Robert Riskin. This is the story of the zany Sycamore household, presided over by Grandpa Vanderhof (Lionel Barrymore), a former businessman who has turned his back on commerce to enjoy life. At the Sycamores', everyone does just what he or she pleases. Penny Sycamore (Spring Byington), Grandpa's daughter, has become a novelist because someone delivered a typewriter to her home by mistake. Penny's husband makes firecrackers in his basement with the help of Mr. DePinna (Halliwell Hobbes), an iceman who showed up at the Sycamore doorstep one day and never left. Their daughter, Essie (Ann Miller), imagines that she's a prima ballerina, even though her dour teacher, Boris (Mischa Auer), assesses her work with, "Confidentially, it steenks!" Essie's husband, Ed (Dub Taylor), who'd rather play a xylophone than work, spends his free time selling Essie's candy, wrapping each package in paper from a used printing press that dispenses anarchistic slogans. The one normal member of the household is Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur), in love with wealthy Tony Kirby (James Stewart).
Naturally, when the stuffy, aristocratic Kirbys come to the Sycamores' for dinner, the event is a disaster, capped with the arrest of everyone in the household. Hart and Kaufman's third act found the previously judgmental Kirby softening his attitude toward the freewheeling Sycamore clan, admitting that he's never had so much fun in his life. Screenwriter Riskin altered the focus of the play by throwing out the third act and concentrating upon Tony Kirby's father, Kirby Sr., who as played by Edward Arnold is transformed from a stock stuffed shirt into a ruthless, grasping tycoon, eager to buy up every house on the Sycamores' block to make room for a munitions plant. The film thus became the story of Kirby's regeneration at the hands of the carefree Sycamores. Enough of the play's screwball elements are retained to compensate for Riskin's speechifying and plot distortions (though the softening of one of the play's vital ingredients, Grandpa's refusal to pay his income tax, borders on the sacrilegious). You Can't Take It With You earned several Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director (Capra's third Oscar). |
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