Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife... Leggi tuttoSocially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all on the same day.Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair...all on the same day.
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- 2 vittorie e 1 candidatura in totale
- Inspector
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- Sampson
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- Kelly
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- O'Brien
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- Gossip on Phone
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- Dude Finlay
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- Mr. Jones
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- Gossip on Phone
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- Carter
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- Oscar
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Recensioni in evidenza
Comparing this with another Capra classic, imagine if you will instead of old man Potter running the bank in Bedford Falls, we had kindly old Peter Bailey instead. The man who believed in investing in his clients at the Building&Loan and passed that philosophy on to his son George.
That's what bank president Walter Huston believes in as well. But he's got a board of directors on his case just as Samuel S. Hinds as Peter Bailey. But he's got one thing that Hinds didn't have, a bored and flirtatious wife in Kay Johnson, ready to respond to the amorous advances of Gavin Gordon, one of the bank vice presidents.
Huston has a surrogate son though, like his George in the person of head teller Pat O'Brien. Pat works some wonders, save's Huston-Johnson marriage, helps stop a bank panic that results from a holdup that was clearly an inside job, and gets out from under suspicion of being involved in that same crime.
The climax of American Madness might be tied up a little too neatly, but Capra was honing his populist movie making skills in this film.
And if it's dated, there's reason to be thankful it is.
Lo sapevi?
- QuizAccording to soundman Edward Bernds: "Allan Dwan started the picture and worked about a week or ten days on it... Dwan made even Walter Huston look bad, and we wondered how long it would take Cohn and Briskin to wake up to the fact. When [Capra] took the picture over, threw out everything that had been shot before, and started over again, I fully realized, for the first time, what directing really was. Scenes that had been dull became lively, performances that had been dead came alive."
- BlooperDuring the robbery scene, a cable can be seen protruding from the guard's trousers.
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[last lines]
Thomas Dickson: Matt! I want you both to take the day off, go downtown, get a license, and get married right away.
[Matt starts to protest]
Thomas Dickson: I don't want to hear any more about it. If you don't get married I'm going to fire the both of you. Helen, while you're downtown, you might stop in and make reservations for the bridal suite on the Berengeria, sailing next week.
Matt Brown: Gee, thanks, Mr. Dickson.
- ConnessioniFeatured in Brother Can You Spare a Dime (1975)
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- Data di uscita
- Paese di origine
- Lingua
- Celebre anche come
- La follia della metropoli
- Luoghi delle riprese
- 453 S Spring St, Los Angeles, California, Stati Uniti(was Citizens National Bank in 1932)
- Azienda produttrice
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- Tempo di esecuzione1 ora 15 minuti
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- Proporzioni
- 1.37 : 1