Beautifully written friend

In fact, George's ear wasn't supposed to bleed...Warner unintentionally put a bit more force than necessary into it, and actually felt so bad afterwards that he hugged the actor playing young George.

Same here. I love everything about this movie 😢😣😭😅

Heart melting 🥺

That was what broke out the water works.

god that made my eyes tear up..😭😭

@Kyra He lost his hearing after saving his bro from the icy water...but still a good deed.

This scene gets me too! So real. !

And real as well he really hit him he made his ear bleed

Only movie moment that reliably chokes me up EVERY YEAR!!

That scene has been melting me for 40 years.

Dude I looked it up because I kinda remembered it from my childhood. I'm tearing up rn

👍Besides The Wizard of Oz, as that was a Non-Disney masterpiece too.

Alison Jane Collett - We are kindred souls. It's my all-time favoite of ANY film.

It's my favorite too! 🥰🥰

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I sob every Christmas Eve I watch it

He only became that irrational and struck George because both his state of mind and because he was afraid. Afraid someone else will be burying their child.

He was so distraught at losing his son Robert to influenza that he wasn't paying attention to what he was putting in the capsules. George noticed this and didn't deliver the medicine because that kid would've died. Later when George was in Pottersville Mr. Gower was sentenced to 20 years in prison for poisoning the kid. When he got out he was homeless and panhandling to survive only to be hated and mocked by the town!

@@melissacooper4282 I get that.

@@mkaplan1383 He wasn't afraid someone else will be burying their child, he was so distraught from his son's death that he wasn't paying attention to what he was doing.

Mr Gower was drunk . He got drunk to try to heal the pain and made the mistake:(

ME TOO

George was a good guy from the get go.

SAME

Me 4

Me 5

And considering what George saw when he got his wish. Because he wouldn't have been there to say something.🥲

Yea plus people are horrified that kids worked this was before child labor laws and most places it's 16 and older

Completely agree. I imagine Capra asked Warner (Mr Gower) to hit him harder than they had rehearsed. I also imagine there was a small blood capsule in his ear that opened on impact. Regardless its a truly heartful sequence. Heartbreakingly real. Even the edit of seeing quick Mary get upset. George has saved lives by doing what he has done including Mr Gowers. He is so brave. The direction, acting and staging of this scene is very modern and immediate. Absolutely perfect cinematic moment.

Not to mention intelligence and initiative. He payed attention, saw that something was wrong and took action.

The little girl sitting there in the scene where George gets slapped is actually a witness! By today’s standards,! She could have blown the whistle on gowers negligence!

@@j.peters3053 that same little girl likes George. George would ask her nicely not to say a thing.

We need Dick Tracy to show up and beat the heck out of Mr. Gower.

It's just what people did back then.

Gower felt terrible about it upon inspecting the pills and tasting poison. He realized George had saved him from making a terrible mistake by not delivering it and saving a family from another heartache.

Yeah, it was bad enough *Mr. Gower* had gotten a heartache from the loss of his own son without any other such loss.

This scene was incredibly hard to the young actor to go through. I was told that the guy playing Mr Gower would drink before filming and went a bit harder on the kid

PotterTube.

Potter, you're nothing but a scurvy little spider!

Now it's ten.

He's just mad because Dana Carvey's George beat up his Jon Lovitz.

This movies like Forrest Gump going through Spanish flu, Great Depression, and ww2

Looks like a boy Gregory Peck.

JudgeJulieLit, huh?

+Liana Soares Peck was an actor and one of the most popular stars in film from the 40’s all the way to the 60’s. Hope this helps. ^u^

:P

I never noticed that! She must have ordered some more with Mr. Gower serving her. Luckily he didn't put drain cleaner on it! :( Either that or the world's slowest-melting ice cream.

Ha! That's funny! Never thought of it like that...never noticed she still had ice cream,in tge dish. I always figured she was just waiting for George to get back.

Si.Es cierto.Toda una hora le lleva?...y bue.😆

She's letting every savor last

His final role was in ‘The Ten Commandments’.

@@jogman262 Yea, he was great.

You’re missing a good movie you need to watch it

Brilliant filmmaking!

I’d say this scene and the ending scene of Sophie’s Choice

City Lights...when the blind girl tells him "yes, now I can see" always makes me tear up. She seen him for the kind soul he is

And real blood comes out of his ear.

That was Hollywood - very hard on child actors back then.

According to the actor who played the boy, Mr Gower was really drunk and hit him hard enough to actually make his ear bleed. He apologized after the scene was filmed and hugged him for real.

Wait what!? Dang

Are you fucking serious?

Who am I kidding? I'm bawling my eyes out!

Start with his star as Jesus in the 1927 King of Kings.

Yeah that's what I can't figure out? Its funny?.. The older you get in some ways, you grow hard and cold due to life stress just like George Bailey. Whats funny is the older you also get, you get more sensitive and empathetic and emotional to scenes like this scene. I guess we all know death is coming for us at some point, have to cherish life, and the spirit God gave and created for us and use it for good for his glory and not our own. That's what chokes me up more and more about this movie the older I get. Time goes by very quickly.

@@bobbyscalchi4013 Very well put! I think it's also because we're like fruit--when we're young, we're un-bruisable and not quite ready, but when we mature, we're sweeter and more sensitive 😅

@@bobbyscalchi4013 Haha, and your comment made me rewatch the scene, and it got me AGAIN! 😢😄

Little mary saw the whole bloody thing, did anyone notice that ?

It was another moment that helped her to decide that George was the only man for her heart

That's not James Stewart. A different actor played George Bailey as a child.

No instead they have a ring full of producers, directors and actors that prey on children in the worst way. If I was a kid and I had to choose between past child beating Hollywood and what happens today, I'll take the beating.

It is ...

Me: let’s watch some scenes of one of my classic movies to get my mind off the dumpster fire world. Me. Oh shit.

The critical drinker??

But george is there♥️

He has an infection in his ear from the earlier scene when he saves his brother. It’s a sore ear. Making it burst could have contributed to the permanent hearing loss

But, he really did smack him. I watched a documentary about the movie. The actor was a little too into character and slapped him hard enough for him to be scared.

SuperCanefan26 wow. That wouldn’t fly today. But a lot of the complaining is of accuracy. It was very accurate.., a little too accurate.

Liana Soares different times.

He was trying to drink away his grief and wasn't in his right mind.

The black and white screen hides it a little because of the blur effect, but the color versions of this film shows the wet streak on both sides of his face indicating he's been crying. Even if he'd been drinking to conceal his emotions, it wouldn't stop him from crying. I know from experience that alcoholism can affect everyone differently.

@@mkaplan1383, oh. ☹️😰