Do you think the writers intended viewers to contrast the bank-run scene in House of Strangers with the very similar scene in It's a Wonderful Life?
shareI wondered the exact same thing. It would be interesting to know if it was intentional or not.
Why would the "writers" have wanted to remind the folk of a cheap, manipulative trash like A Wonderful Life? Were they sadists? Nihilists? They knew well enough that a mere association with Capra`s exercise in vile cinematic whoring would inevitably smear - and in all likelihood doom - their work, too.
"facts are stupid things" - Ronald Reagan
Actually, this film's violence and tension reminded more of the bank run in AMERICAN MADNESS (1932), which coincidentally, was also directed by Capra (as was WONDERFUL LIFE).
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