It's a wonderful life: obvious attempt to discredit bankers, a “common trick used by Communists.”

[The Straight Story]

It’s a Wonderful Life
4. The movie was mentioned in an FBI file in 1947, when an analyst passed along the concern that the film was an obvious attempt to discredit bankers, a “common trick used by Communists.”

5. Among other people, the notoriously cynical Dorothy Parker contributed some rewrites to the script. Maybe she had a soft spot for Christmas (or maybe the money was just that good).

6. Does George look strangely sweaty to you when he and Clarence are on the bridge? That’s because it was 90 degrees out the day that scene was filmed. But I think it works –- I always assumed he looked damp because of the snow and because he was in the middle of his nervous breakdown.



http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/75712#ixzz2G6PD22CA

[Warpy]

1. Since the hero was a banker

one can only imagine the depth of paranoia of the FBI goon who wrote that. Mighta been Jedgar, hisownself.

[meow2u3]

2. Bailey was a banker, but he wasn't a bankster

Potter was the bankster.