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One of cinema's acclaimed director's, Frank Capra changed the face of cinema with such classics as "It Happened One Night", "Lost Horizon", "Mr Smith Goes to Washington" and "It's a Wonderful Life". This book covers all of Capra's work from the early silents through to his last film in 1961, "A Pocketful of Miracles". This book reveals the psychological pressures which caused the Sicilian-born Capra to collapse creatively at the end of the 1940s under the onslaught of the McCarthy witch hunt.
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Masterly, comprehensive, and frequently surprising. --Barry Gewen, the New York Times Book Review
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Joseph McBride is a film historian and critic whose books include Orson Welles, Hawks on Hawks and Steven Spielberg: A Biography. His next book, Searching for John Ford, will be published by St. Martin's Press. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.
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- PublisherFaber & Faber
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0571167993
- ISBN 13 9780571167999
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages768
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