Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 40. Chapters: It's a Wonderful Life, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lady for a Day, Lost Horizon, Pocketful of Miracles, Arsenic and Old Lace, The Nazis Strike, For the Love of Mike, Ladies of Leisure, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Here Comes the Groom, Dirigible, Meet John Doe, You Can't Take It With You, Platinum Blonde, State of the Union, Divide and Conquer, The Strong Man, The Battle of Russia, The Matinee Idol, The Battle of China, A Hole in the Head, The Battle of Britain, The Miracle Woman, American Madness, Riding High, Broadway Bill, The Younger Generation, The Donovan Affair, The Power of the Press, Rain or Shine, So This Is Love?, Flight, Fultah Fisher's Boarding House, Say It with Sables, That Certain Thing, Submarine, The Way of the Strong, Forbidden, Our Mr. Sun. Excerpt: It's a Wonderful Life is a 1946 American comedy/drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra and based on the short story "The Greatest Gift" written by Philip Van Doren Stern. The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man whose imminent suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George all the lives he has touched and the contributions he has made to his community. Despite initially being considered a box office flop due to high production costs and stiff competition at the time of its release, the film has come to be regarded as a classic and a staple of Christmas television around the world. Theatrically, the film's break-even point was actually $6.3 million, approximately twice the production cost, a figure it never came close to achieving in its initial release. An appraisal in 2006 reported: "Although it was not the complete box-office failure that today everyone...