Pixilated: Frank Capra's Columbia Years

The Premiere Frank Capra Collection

Director: Frank Capra

Cast: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Huston, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Arnold, Claude Rains

(Sony, 2006) Rated: N/A

US DVD release date: 5 December 2006

[23 January 2007]

by Zeth Lundy

PopMatters Music Columns/Features Editor

Capra's films of the '30s are seminal works and cannot be underestimated; their influence on American film has been viral, forever infiltrating the structural and thematic templates of contemporary cinema.

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