The Men Who Made The Movies
This week BBC2 highlights the work of Frank Capra , director of some of the most successful and influential Hollywood films of the 1930s and 1940s.
In this programme, Capra - ' First get your audience laughing then they will accept a moral tale'reminisces about his career, from early beginnings as a lowly gag-writer for Mack Sennett , to his Oscar-winning days with Columbia, where his talents helped to turn a tiny studio into one of the giants of the industry.
With excerpts from American Madness, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, It Happened One Night, Mr Deeds Goes to Town, Mr Smith Goes to Washington, Meet John Doe , Lost Horizon, Arsenic and Old Lace, It's a Wonderful Life. Narrated by CLIFF ROBERTSON
Written, directed and produced by RICHARD SCHICKEL. A WNET production