Pocketful of Miracles
Frank Capra's remake of his 1933 comedy Lady for a Day is a disappointing end to his distinguished career. Damon Runyon's yarn worked during the Depression, but here this tale of class envy and economic inequality now seems dated. It has its sentimental moments, but it's too long, and Bette Davis is badly miscast as the apple-seller transformed into a wealthy socialite by a superstitious gangster (Glenn Ford) and his gang of hoodlums.
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