Pocketful of Miracles (1961)

Regista:

Frank Capra

Writers:

Robert Riskin (story) and
Damon Runyon (story) ...

Data di uscita:

19 dicembre 1961 (USA)

Genere:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself...

Plot Keywords:

News Reporter | Apple Seller | Pressure | Dude | Pool Game

Premi:

Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 2 wins & 4 nominations

Recensioni degli utenti:

Bette Davis Stars as Ann Margaret's Misfit Mother

Cast

Glenn Ford	...	Dave 'the Dude' Conway
Bette Davis	...	Apple Annie
Hope Lange	...	Elizabeth 'Queenie' Martin
Arthur O'Connell	...	Count Alfonso Romero
Peter Falk	...	Joy Boy
Thomas Mitchell	...	Judge Henry G. Blake
Edward Everett Horton	...	Hutchins
Mickey Shaughnessy	...	Junior
David Brian	...	Governor
Sheldon Leonard	...	Steve Darcey
Peter Mann	...	Carlos Romero
Ann-Margret	...	Louise
Barton MacLane	...	Police Commissioner (as Barton Maclane)
John Litel	...	Police Insp. McCrary
Jerome Cowan	...	Mayor

Alias:

Angeli con la pistola (Italy) [it]

Durata:

136 min

Nazionalità:

USA

Lingua:

Inglese | American Sign Language

Colore:

Colore (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sonoro:

Mono (Westrex Recording System)

Divieti:

Australia:G | Finland:K-12 | Spain:13 | Sweden:11 | UK:U | USA:Approved (PCA #20029) | West Germany:6 | Argentina:Atp

Luoghi delle riprese:

Paramount Studios - 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Franton Production

Curiosità:

Average Shot Length (ASL) = 13 seconds

Errori:

Anacronismi: Hope "Queenie" Lange is wearing 1950s stiletto heels.

Citazioni:

Butler: Nobody arrives first, sir. They all arrive last.

Movie Connections:

Citato in "Dawson's Creek: Hurricane (#1.5)" (1998)

Colonna sonora:

Pocketful of Miracles

Bette Davis Stars as Ann Margaret's Misfit Mother

Apple Annie (Bette Davis) makes her living as a gin-sauced, basket-carrying, apple-selling NYC street woman. This motion picture is in color which makes Davis's famous facial expressions, especially her eyes, all the more effective.

The people Apple Annie hangs out with are other street vendors who are social misfits of various sorts; but, they have one thing in common: poverty.

Apple Annie is well connected with a mobster known as The Dude. Fortunately, he's superstitious. The tough mobster (Glen Ford) believes Apple Annie's apples bring him daily good luck because she says, "God Bless You," to everyone who buys from her.

All along Apple Annie's been writing her daughter on stationary from an upper-crusty city apartment complex, in order to pretend that she's a well-to-do lady. When her daughter, Louise (Ann Margaret, in her film debut) writes that she's coming to the city with her potential fiancé', whose father is a Spanish count, Apple Annie's pretense is not only about to be exposed but it could ruin her only child's chance for marrying well enough so that she'll never live in poverty as her mother has.

The rest of the story is fabulous: humorous, ingenious, well-casted, scripted and acted. It's anything but a typical mob story.

For me, the priceless scenes are between the veteran actor Bette Davis and upstart Ann Margaret. Imagine being able to claim that in your first film you starred as Bette Davis's daughter? Margaret gives a fine first film performance face-to-face with the Queen of the Screen. Peter Faulk does his mobster version of "Columbo," in top form. Davis, in Technicolor, delivers one of the most realistic, heart-felt, truly dramatic metamorphosis characters I've seen.