Asking for more morphine was him basically asking for them to assist with his passing. It's sort of an open secret that if someone is in hospital in such severe pain with zero change of pulling through, they will allow the morphine button to be pressed a few extra times.

Don't stop moving the hands, bud! If that's how you EK-SPRESS ya'self!

This was Jimmy Stewart's first film after WW2. He was burned out from four years of combat as a bomber pilot, and didn't want to go back to acting yet. Lionel Barrymore (Mr Potter) talked him into doing the picture.

Super chill reaction videos for sure.

George Bailey is a reverse Ebenezer Scrooge--always putting others before himself, rather than the opposite. But he faces a similar day of reckoning.

Drew Barrymore's great-uncle Lionel is Potter. He portrayed Scrooge for years in "A Christmas Carol" on radio. Watch him in John Huston's "Key Largo".

An innocent and pure young lady like Ms. Whimsory may not know this. "Making violent love to me" had and has a totally different context from the evil and sordid one. It can simply mean courting and wooing in a G/PG context, even with a proper chaperone.

Did your kitten finally take out your curtain lights or did you remove them as a precaution?

the strangest thing about george baliey not existing is that it wasnt snowing that day without him. how would that work.

I'm set to direct the play version of this this coming summer, and I'm so excited!!!

Whimsory your'e awsomely Wonderful! 😉👍🏼🔔

Love this film! Now, please watch SNL's It's a Wonderful Life: The Lost Ending 😂

Yup, my great grandparents were "garlic-eaters" from Italy, so that makes me one too. I love It's A Wonderful Life. I watch it every Christmas and I always cry at the end. So happy that you've now watched it. Merry Christmas.

Merry Christmas, Whimsory!! Love how tickled she was by the cops being Bert and Ernie😂😂😂

In my top 3 movies ❤. So glad you reacted to this Gem 💎,,,,,,Nolliag Shona ( Merry Christmas )from Ireland 🇮🇪

I would love to hear you call someone a garlic eater lol

You hate Sam until the end 😂❤

Most beautiful movie ever to myself ❤

More Kubrick, please. 2001, Dr. Strangelove, Paths of Glory. Silence of the Lambs, too.

"Garlic-eater" was directed at the Italians, like Mr. Martini who was able to move his family into Bailey Park.

Re black & white movies, Ebert made an interesting observation: We often think of B&W movies as having something 'missing", but considering in reality we already see color, is absence is actually something extra --a new perspective-- that we normally don't have.

Dont say "garlic eater" to a Italian. Sam didnt hesitate to advance George up to 25,000 (400,000 in todays money) he also knew George was a good person. In the conversation and Marys mom house it was George, that saved him lots of money in a plant to get his soy bean plastics. Plus employed many workers from Bedford falls. Mary is the unsung hero, to know and love her husband since she was a little girl, to round up the town that her and her husband helped. It was paid back, why the Bank Examiner pitched it, he realized if all these people love this person, then there is no way he is a bad person. The worst of the movie was making a 25 year old beautiful Donna Reed into a old maid, didnt fool anyone.Happy Christmas ⛄

Thank you so much. Your outros are a lesson in humanity! Loving our beauty, your expressions and reactions. You have a beautiful soul. I make a point of watching this every year.

A run on a bank is when something causes a panic - anything from a real event to just a rumor - and people think a bank or the banking system is going to fail, so they all rush to take their money out at the same time. When so many withdrawals happen at once the bank won't have enough cash in hand to cover them all plus its regular expenses, and then it really will fail. This happened a lot during the Depression. FDIC deposit insurance and other regulatory safeguards since then are designed to prevent failures, but when regulation and enforcement ease up, banks still fail and bank runs still happen. Several digital banks failed in the US just recently.

Sam's last name is pronounced like "Wayne Right"

Did you like "Mr Krueger's Christmas"?

Was Sam annoying? Yes, at times. The "hee-haw" thing was probably a product of the times though. But he was a true friend. When George was over at Mary's house that night of their first kiss, Sam gave George and Mary the opportunity to get in on the ground floor on an investment. When George advised Sam that he could make plastic from soy beans, Sam accepted that advice and followed it. When George also told Sam to tell his father that instead of building a factory in Rochester, they could get the Bedford Falls Tool and Machine Works factory for a song and all of the labor they could want, since half the town was thrown out of work when that factory shut down. That piece of advice not only helped Sam and his father, but it also helped those that were out of work in Bedford Falls. And that is a testament to George for thinking of Sam and giving the advice, and to Sam for being wise enough and a good enough friend to listen to the advice and follow it. That was why Sam gave George the $25,000. Not only was he a close friend from childhood, but he also felt indebted to George for the great advice. He didn't have to give George the money. It would have been easy to say that it is too much of a pain to make sure George gets the money while Sam is in Europe. But Sam has integrity and sticks by his friends.

One thing about this movie: it only became a classic coz it had lapsed into public domain and T.V. stations started showing it around Christmas time long enough it became a staple as well as the 1st Christmas special. It's been removed from public domain some time in the '90s because a song in it was still under copyright.

One of my favorite parts of this movie is that at the end the announcement of the decision was in the background because it really didn't matter.

Why are Black and White movies/TV better? Colors are distracting! The dialog and acting become much clearer focal points. The differences between people, like wardrobe, superficial and relatively unimportant, become less important.

Sometimes I wish I could see if I've made a positive difference for anyone. Going through a long and difficult personal trial that has my heart pretty bruised.

My Favourite moment was whimsory new kitten messing with her earphones 😂 that was priceless . I Ment to say happy Christmas to you whimsory🎄⛄️🎅 but forgot but its better late then never and of course a happier new year when it Arrives CHEERS 🥂 !! 👋🏻

My oldest sister loved James Stewart so much, she named her only son after him....one of the greatest figures in the history of all cinema. One could, literally, watch every one of his 80 films and love them all, unabashedly....one of my personal favorites is the 1965 Civil War movie 'Shenandoah'. This film hits a little close to home for me...the year I graduated from college my grandfather passed and my Nan, subsequently, took to the bed, where she stayed the rest of her days...i took care of her all through my twenties, into my early 30s. Like George, I watched my friends/peers move on without me, so I can relate to his situation...But, my Nan was the person I was closest to in this world, and I do it all again in a heartbeat....Never travelled outside my province, never been on a plane, train, ship, subway...but I still walked away with the best life had to offer...NOTHING could replace that time with her.

The random character who asked for $17.50 is the actress Ellen Corby, who later played Grandma Esther Walton on The Walton in the 1970s. The "$17.50" was not scripted. Director Frank Capra asked her privately to come up with a random number - and Jimmy Stewart's reaction was spontaneous. It was so touching, they kept it in the movie.

This movie. This is one of my absolutely favorite movies. It bombed when they released it, now it's considered one of the best by more than just me.

Mary is Sam to George's Frodo, I like to say.

"Why is he acting like this?" Sixty seconds earlier he found out he was going to be stuck in Bedford Falls for the rest of his life, contrary to all his hopes and dreams and what his brother had promised him. How would you act?

Ward Bond plays the cop, Bert. He was a member of the great director John Ford's "stock company" and appeared in many of the greatest movies ever made such as The Searchers and The Qhiet Man, both of which are in color.

Bizarre movie indeed. The collective consciousness of another time, even in the same place, can seem utterly foreign, yet the iconic popularity of the movie suggests that somehow its themes are embraced by many as universal and timeless. Good to see you Whimsory and best wishes for 2025.

The original Bert and Ernie.

Nick the bartender is played by Sheldon Leonard, who usually played gangsters. His clai. To fame, however, is as one of the greatest TV producers of all time. His shows included the Andy Griffith, Dick Van Dyke and Danny Thomas shows. He's also the source for the names of the two main characters of The Big Bang Theory.

This is my father's favorite Christmas film. When the most stressful week in the life of a pastor is the very last week of December, as he's waiting to see if the church subscribed to the budget, seeing everyone come together and give more than enough is a dream come true. There are those who are unhappy that we don't see Mr. Potter get his comeuppance and I have never had to think about it because Charles Dickens did it for us. Mr. Potter is the unredeemed Ebenezer Scrooge, therefore that vision of Christmas Yet to Come that scared Scrooge into repentance is Mr. Potter's fate - to die alone without friends or family present, to be buried in the local cemetery, and then forgotten by time. Furthermore, the film's central thesis is that the universe is governed by a just and loving God, one Mr. Potter will face on Judgement Day.

Well, after all, George _did_ wish for a million dollars.

Another b&w movie that I highly recommend is The Best Years of Our Lives, about veterans returning from war. It won the best picture Oscar over this movie.

A "run" on the bank happened during the Great Depression when people were worried about the future, panicked, and took all their money out of the bank at once. Then the banks closed down and people lost their life savings instantly.

Sorry about your people who convinced you this would not be emotional. But I really liked your reaction and commentary. Anyway, stay whimsical;)

Mary was born in 1910. George's experience happens Dec 24, 1945. So Mary is 35 when she is the "old maid" librarian. Also, keep in mind, Clarence died over 200 years earlier, so his sensibilities were even older than were contemporary for the period the movie was set it.

Happy New Year! 🎆🎇🎉

she said "i dont want anyone else to die" right before the final battle. oops

@12:17 - my favorite part