'Frank Capra: Mr. America' Review – Venice Doc On Famed Filmmaker – Deadline
'Frank Capra: Mr. America' review: Venice Film Festival doc creates complex portrait of filmmaker who made classics, but named names in the 1950s.
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'Frank Capra: Mr. America' review: Venice Film Festival doc creates complex portrait of filmmaker who made classics, but named names in the 1950s.
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Trashing political humbug disappeared from the silver screen for a long time, although it’s far too juicy a topic to stay gone forever.
Trashing political humbug disappeared from the silver screen for a long time, although it’s far too juicy a topic to stay gone forever.
Director Frank Capra, before he got into movies, was a chemical engineering graduate from the California Institute of Technology, although he was frustrated by his inability to turn that degree into a career before he found his way into film. There's a theory that his own studies led to inserting the line about plastics, although I haven't been able to find confirmation of that.