Der Tag an dem die Bank gestürmt wurde (1932)

Der Tag an dem die Bank gestürmt wurde: Directed by Frank Capra, Allan Dwan, Roy William Neill. With Walter Huston, Pat O’Brien, Kay Johnson, Constance Cummings. Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused for robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson’s wife had an affair…all in the same day.

“After all the material I have read about so many better known Frank Capra movies, I am amazed that this one has not been more widely acclaimed. u0026quot;American Madnessu0026quot; tells a great big, intricate tale involving a host of characters tangled up in a fairly complex sequence of events, and all in less than an hour and a half. As the pace of the action grows ever quicker, and the screen imagery becomes more and more spectacular, the film skillfully holds the vieweru0026#39;s undivided attention without any slack moments. True to the Capra style, there a moments of preachy grand-standing, which one should expect in such movies of this era. The conclusion of the show, also typical of Capra films, is a bit too neat and tidy for todayu0026#39;s more jaded and skeptical tastes; however, if you like this directoru0026#39;s best work, this one should not be missed. Such a skillful, riveting, and economic dramatization of a rousing, ambitious spellbinder of a tale is very rare in any era.”