AMERICA IS A LADDER WITH BLADES FOR RUNGS_IWSG Post

 

The sickest Frank Capra said he ever got was traveling in steerage as a boy to America.

The most thrilled he ever got was when as a boy he looked from the deck to see the Statue of Liberty.

All of his movies were love letters to America in some form or fashion.

When the government asked him to make a series of documentaries to persuade a reluctant public of the danger of Nazi Germany.

Senator Joe McCarthy hated IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
Why?
The part involving the maligning of fat-cat banker and slumlord Henry Potter. 
While Bailey (who lends money to the working poor) is the movie’s hero.
Henry Potter (who focuses on the financial bottom line alone) is the villain. 
According to an FBI’s memo, portraying a capitalist in such a negative light was a classic communist trick.

The Senate's Witch Hunt into Hollywood disillusioned Frank Capra who made few movies afterwards.