When so many scenes fashioned from such ordinary material turn out so delightful, you know you are in the presence of a brilliant director, which Frank Capra proved to be in this effort and in subsequent films.

  A love-hate relationship perfectly textured and developed.  Stands to this day (despite dated styles) as a model on how to get it right.  In fact, if they “could make ‘em like this anymore” it would still be a tremendous success today.

  Colbert and Gable won Oscars and you will likely agree.  Speaking of deserved oscars, this seventy year old film also holds the distinction as one of three movies ever to sweep all the major academy award categories.

        » Brent Chastain, Top3films.com