弗兰克·卡普拉 — Director (37)
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The Younger Generation (1929) [Movie] IMDb Douban
The Younger Generation
director: Frank Capra actor: Jean Hersholt / Lina Basquette …
other title: 年青的一代 / Loin du ghetto …
Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business practices cause him to become a big success, and he moves the family to Park Avenue. They go, but were happier back on the East Side. Morris is ashamed of this parents and his humble origins, but learns in the end that there is more to life than money.
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So This Is Love? (1928) [Movie] IMDb Douban
So This Is Love?
director: Frank Capra actor: Shirley Mason / William Collier Jr. …
other title: 这就是爱 / Un punch à l'estomac …
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
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That Certain Thing (1928) [Movie] Douban IMDb
That Certain Thing
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 actor: 更多...
other title: 笃定之事 / La Madone des sandwiches …
Molly Kelly, a cigar stand drudge, marries the wealthy son of a restauranter who (as a result) disinherits his son. Later the son "makes good" by opening a lunch box stand and his father, whose business has fallen off, gives the young couple financial help to expand their business. An early effort from director Frank Capra (IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE), THAT CERTAIN THING is a glimpse at the cinematic beginnings of this great filmmaker (and, therein, warrants some accommodating on the part of the viewer for the well-worn print).
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Arsenic and Old Lace (1944) [Movie] Min reol
Arsenic and Old Lace
director: Frank Capra actor: Cary Grant / Priscilla Lane …
other title: Arsenic et vieilles dentelles / Arsen und Spitzenhäubchen …
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
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Broadway Bill (1934) [Movie] IMDb
Broadway Bill
director: Frank Capra actor: Warner Baxter / Myrna Loy …
other title: La Course de Broadway Bill / Estrictamente confidencial
Tycoon J.L. Higgins controls his whole family, but one of his sons- in-law, Dan Brooks and his daughter Alice are fed up with that. Brooks quits his job as manager of J.L.'s paper box factory and devotes his life to his racing horse Broadway Bill, but his bank- roll is thin and the luck is against him, he is arrested because of $150 he owes somebody for horse food, but suddenly a planed fraud by somebody else seems to offer him a chance...
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A Hole in the Head (1959) [Movie] Douban
A Hole in the Head
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 actor: 弗兰克·辛纳特拉 / 爱德华·罗宾逊 …
other title: 合家欢 / 头破血流 …
托尼在迈阿密经营着一家入不敷出的旅馆, 女人是他的另一软肋 (雪儿，他目前的女神，比托尼还没责任感).唯一靠谱的是他12岁的能干儿子阿来. 当托尼想让古板的兄弟马里奥再次保释他时, 马里奥提出条件: 要么放弃儿子, 要么和 "贤良淑德的女人"结婚.对此托尼和阿来只是耍太极，此时符合条件的女人埃莉诺却出现了..
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Why We Fight, 2 (1945) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
The Nazis Strike
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / 安纳托尔·李维克 actor: 爱德华·贝奈斯 / 安瑟维·内维尔·张伯伦 …
other title: 纳粹的入侵 / The Nazis Strike …
The second film of Frank Capra's Why We Fight propaganda film series. It introduces Germany as a nation whose aggressive ambitions began in 1863 with Otto von Bismarck and the Nazis as its latest incarnation.
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
Pocketful of Miracles
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 actor: 格伦·福特 / 贝蒂·戴维斯 …
other title: 锦囊妙计 / 富贵满华堂(港) …
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
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Gallagher (1931) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Platinum Blonde
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 actor: 洛丽泰·扬 / 罗伯特·威廉斯 Robert Williams …
other title: 银发女郎 / Platinum Blonde …
Ann Schuyler is an upper-crust socialite who bullies her reporter husband into conforming to her highfalutin ways. The husband chafes at the confinement of high society, though, and yearns for a creative outlet. He decides to write a play and collaborates with a fellow reporter.
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War Comes to America (1945) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
War Comes to America
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / 安纳托尔·李维克 actor: Dean Acheson / General Bergeret …
other title: 美国的参战 / 我们为何而战7 …
In this final installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda series, the subject focuses on the United States of America. We learn of its good qualities and the things worth fighting for. With that established, we learn of the history of the United States' population shifting opinion towards siding with the Allies against the Axis until the attack on Pearl Harbour which brought America into full scale involvement in the war.
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The Battle of Britain (1943) [Movie] Douban IMDb
The Battle of Britain
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / Anatole Litvak actor: Douglas Bader / Arno Breker …
other title: 不列颠之战 / 大不列颠保卫战(港) …
In this installment of the "Why We Fight" propaganda film series, we have the account of Great Britain's last stand against the forces of Nazi Germany. This mainly focuses on the desperate, but successful, battle to maintain their vital air superiority over the British Isles and the morale of the people to prevent invasion.
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Why We Fight, 3 (1943) [Movie] Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Divide and Conquer
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 / 安纳托尔·李维克 actor: 诺克斯·曼宁 / 温斯顿·丘吉尔 …
other title: 分而治之 / Divide and Conquer …
In this episode of the Why We Fight propaganda series, the events from the English and French declarations of war against Nazi Germany to the conquest of France by the Nazi. In detail, we learn of how a combination of innovative Nazi military tactics and the work of traitors allowed the conquest of much of Central Europe.
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American Madness (1932) [Movie] Douban
American Madness
director: 弗兰克·卡普拉 actor: 沃尔特·休斯顿 / 帕特·奥布莱恩 …
other title: 美国疯狂 / 黄金潮(港) …
Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all in the same day.