Frank Capra's American Dream (1997) (TV)

User Rating:

6.9/10   

Director:

Kenneth Bowser

Writer:

Kenneth Bowser (writer)

Genre:

Documentary | Biography

Plot Keywords:

Narration | Director

Awards:

Nominated for Primetime Emmy. Another 1 win

Cast

Ron Howard	...	Himself (Host / Narrator)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Robert Altman	...	Himself
Edward Bernds	...	Himself
Frank Capra	...	Himself (archive footage)
Frank Capra Jr.	...	Himself
Allen Daviau	...	Himself
André De Toth	...	Himself
Richard Dreyfuss	...	Himself
Bill Duke	...	Himself
Peter Falk	...	Himself
Amy Heckerling	...	Herself
Marshall Herskovitz	...	Himself
Arthur Hiller	...	Himself
Michael Keaton	...	Himself
Angela Lansbury	...	Herself
Garry Marshall	...	Himself
Joseph McBride	...	Himself
John Milius	...	Himself
Richard Schickel	...	Himself
Martin Scorsese	...	Himself
Oliver Stone	...	Himself
Bob Thomas	...	Himself
Fay Wray	...	Herself
Jane Wyatt	...	Herself
Edward Zwick	...	Himself

MPAA:

Rated PG for brief war footage and mild language.

Runtime:

115 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Black and White | Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:PG

Company:

Columbia TriStar Television

Movie Connections:

Features Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)

A must for all film students.

How can you go wrong with a doco about a great Yankee humanitarian like Capra and having the likes of Scorsese, Dreyfuss, Oliver Stone and so on, praise the man himself? This conservative structured doco takes us from A to Z of Capra's career.