Product Description

Sleeves in Portuguese

Product Details

• Published on: 2007
• Formats: Import, NTSC
• Subtitled in: Portuguese, English, French
• Running time: 75 minutes

Customer Reviews

Early Drama By Capra - Still Capra - Also Available In The "Premiere Frank Capra Collection"
This review refers to "American Madness"

Something a little different from Capra, in the form of a drama. The time is the Great Depression era, one bank President(Walter Huston) will not give in to the demands of the Board of Directors to merge for the good of the bank. Huston plays a bank president with a heart(yes they used to have some of these around). He believes in people. If they are honest, hard workers, he can't say no to granting them a loan. He has faith. He has run the bank for 25 years, always steering it in the right direction.

But times are different now. Money is tight. People are out of work. Huston won't budge and the board looks for reason to oust him. Things start snow-balling out of control for the bank. There's a robbery, probably an inside job and the rumors abound that the bank is going down.
Customer's are panicking and there's a run on the bank.

Huston's character, a sort of happy-go-lucky bank president, never gives up. The money is about to run out and in a very Capraesque turn of events, things will greatly improve. The people Huston has been so good to, will now be there to help him.

Other sub-stories add to the plot to create a total snowball effect of what can go wrong will - Huston believes his loving wife is having an affair, there's an office romance and some very tough thugs to deal with -and our guy in on the verge of losing everything.

Capra's style is evident in this early film(1932). A style that lifts our spirits even when the going gets tough. And as always you'll find marvelous acting,filming and dialogue and you can't help but get involved with the characters and the tense storyline.

Highly recommended for Capra and Huston fans, you can also find the Region 1 edition(and a very nice quality transfer with commentary,and subtitles) in "The Priemere Frank Capra" collection. The collection also includes "It Happened One Night","Mr Deeds Goes To Town","You Can't Take It With You","Mr. Smith Goes To Washington", and a Documentary - "Frank Capra's American Dream"

Happy New Year To All and enjoy the film.....Laurie