“Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!”
– George Bailey (James Stewart), It’s A Wonderful Life (1946), screenplay by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and Frank Capra, based on a story by Philip Van Doren Stern
Watched it, as usual, last night… cried, as usual, like a schoolgirl with a skinned knee…. in front of the WIFE, no less!
There are only two movies I know of that reduce me to a whimpering mess regularly no matter how many times I see 'em… this and E.T.