Film Forum

U.S., 1933
Directed by Frank Capra
Starring May Robson, Warren William, Guy Kibbee
Written by Robert Riskin
Approx. 96 min. DCP.

Warren William’s gambler Dave the Dude and his gang of guys and dolls turn May Robson’s haggard fruit peddler Apple Annie into a society dame in preparation for a visit by her hoity-toity daughter. Adapted by Riskin from a Damon Runyon story. Remade by Capra as POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES.

Presented with support from the Ada Katz Fund for Literature in Film and the Robert Jolin Osborne Endowed Fund for American Classic Cinema of the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s

Reviews

“Robert Riskin’s razor-sharp dialogue is matched by Capra’s super-subtle visuals, and backed by an array of suitably Runyonesque characters.”
– Time Out (London)

“This Depression-era fable established Capra as the peer of such buoyant contemporaries as Ernst Lubitsch and Rene Clair.”
– Andrew Sarris, The Village Voice