Book Review

Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success (1992)

Joseph McBride

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Writer: Joseph McBride; Genres: Biography, Movies; Publisher: Simon & Schuster

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By L.S. Klepp

Joseph McBride's biography, Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success, argues that Capra's movies (It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night) were actually darker, his motives far gnarlier than careless viewers realize. There was wormwood under all that corn syrup: If he was so upbeat, why do so many of his characters attempt suicide? A-

Posted Mar 19, 1993

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