Frank Capra
Director, Actor
Films to Rent on DVD
- Platinum Blonde (1931)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Jean Harlow, Loretta Young, Robert Williams…
- Breezy comedy about a young woman from a very rich family impulsively marries a reporter, but each assumes the other is the one whose lifestyle must…
- Miracle Woman, The (1931)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy
- Barbara Stanwyck teams with dir. Frank Capra for this captivating pre–Code film about a preacher's daughter who becomes disillusioned by the…
- Bitter Tea of General Yen, The (1933)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck
- Barbara Stanwyck plays an American missionary in Shanghai who comes to fall in love with her Chinese warlord abductor. Eloquent, sensual cinema with…
- It Happened One Night (1934)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert
- The first film to win all five major Oscars is the classic story of an East–end boy who goes about winning the heart and changing the snobbish…
- Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur
- Archetypal screwball comedy stars Gary Cooper as Mr. Deeds, a country hick who arrives in New York to collect a 20 million dollar inheritance, which…
- Lost Horizon (1937)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton…
- Wonderful fantasy adventure about five people who find sanctuary in a Tibetan Valley where good health, peace and longevity reign. A haunting and…
- You Can't Take It with You (1938)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart, Jean Arthur
- Sentimental comedy from the James Stewart/Frank Capra camp, and something of a classic. Wealthy, straight–laced Jimmy falls for Jean Arthur,…
- Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. James Stewart, Jean Arthur
- Another brilliant comic parable from Frank Capra, in the wake of MR. DEEDS. The endearing Jimmy Stewart plays a young idealist who discovers the…
- Meet John Doe (1941)
- Dir. Frank Capra
Feat. Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan…
- Always partial to a ripe political parable, dir. Capra has Barbara Stanwyck leading hickster Gary Cooper around by the nose on a national goodwill…
- Why We Fight (Prelude to War, Tunisian Victory, Know Your Enemy: Japan, War Comes to America, Battle of China, Battle of Britain, Divide and Conquer) (1943-1945)
- Dir. Frank Capra
- Old boy Frank Capra directed seven raging propaganda films between ARSENIC AND OLD LACE and IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE for the rhetorically–dubbed…