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The pace is fast, the fun frantic, the script as witty as a whiplash and the performances are sublime.

It's not the action or the tension that makes this film important; it's its position at a point of historic and cinematic flux.

If anyone has any doubts that James Stewart was the consummate film actor, his performance as Elwood P Dowd in this classic comedy of the Fifties will dispel them.

It's A Wonderful Life relies on a great script, captivating performances and the inspirational drive of its director/producer, Frank Capra

Hitchcock brilliantly builds suspense scene after scene.

Remembered primarily for its technical brilliance.

A great showcase for the famous Lubitsch touch - mixing smart and sometimes cutting observations about people in their personal and professional lives with sweetly sentimental comedy and romance.

Ginger Rogers shows that she can truly command a stage without an Astaire to back her up.

My pick for the greatest film ever made.