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Laserdisc Title: "POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES (1931)"
Edition: Letterbox Edition (Double-Disc Set)
Directed By: Frank Capra
Starring: Glenn Ford, Bette Davis, Hope Lange, Arthur O'Connell, Peter Falk, Thomas Mitchell, Edward Everett Horton, Mickey Shaughnessy
Production / Year: 1961 Franton Productions
Running Time: 136 Minutes / Color
Audio Format: Digital Sound, CX Encoded
Video Format: LTBX, NTSC, CLV (Extended Play)
Miscellaneous Features: Not Rated
Distributed By: Image Entertainment
Catalog / Spine Number: ID7401MG

Cosmetic Condition:
Disc (s): Excellent - Hardly noticeable to very minor hairline surface swirls, if any
Jacket: Good - Shelf wear, creases, scuffs, slightly worn-out corners or edges and small splits middle of top and left spines

Synopsis:
Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite. POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES is a perfectly-acceptable update of LADY FOR A DAY. Frank Capra revisits the material with an amazing cast headed by Glenn Ford and Bette Davis (playing against her usual screen persona) as `Apple Annie' herself. The story concerns the colourful apple-seller Annie, who has managed to send her daughter Louise (Ann-Margret in her movie debut) to an expensive overseas boarding school. Now the time has come that Louise is to be married (to a member of the Spanish nobility, no less) so Annie turns to her oldest customer `Dave the Dude' (Glenn Ford) to help her out. Dave turns Annie into the worldly and rich Mrs Worthington-Manville, so that Louise will not be ashamed of the poor apple-seller that her mother really is. Bette Davis and Glenn Ford are marvelous as Annie and Dave. The entire cavalcade of Damon Runyon characters is perfectly-realised: Hope Lange as Queenie Martin, Peter Falk as Joy Boy and Mickey Shaughnessy as Junior all add great dimensions to their well-defined characters. Also featuring Arthur O'Connell, Thomas Mitchell, Sheldon Leonard and Peter Mann. This is a somewhat over-acted but thoroughly charming movie that is loads of fun. I've never seen "Lady for a Day", which is this movie's predecessor and, according to many of my fellow reviewers, a superior movie. "Pocketful of Miracles" is such a favorite of mine that I'm not sure I want to risk seeing this supposedly better version of the story. Either way, "Pocketful of Miracles" will never be a disappointment to me and, I think, to many.

THIS IS A 12" LASERDISC AND WILL NOT PLAY IN A DVD PLAYER

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