Socially-conscious banker Thomas Dickson faces a crisis when his protégé is wrongly accused of robbing the bank, gossip of the robbery starts a bank run, and evidence suggests Dickson's wife had an affair... all in the same day.
Acting
Walter Huston's sweaty desperation is contagious.
Direction
Capra crams three movies' worth of crisis into 76 minutes.
Director
Frank Capra
Walter Huston
Thomas Dickson
Pat O'Brien
Matt Brown
Kay Johnson
Phyllis Dickson
Constance Cummings
Helen
Gavin Gordon
Cyril Cluett
Arthur Hoyt
Ives
Robert Emmett O'Connor
Police Inspector
Edwin Maxwell
Clark (uncredited)
Sterling Holloway
Oscar (uncredited)
Robert Ellis
Dude Finlay (uncredited)
Tom Dugan
Depositor (uncredited)
Charley Grapewin
Mr. Jones (uncredited)
Harry C. Bradley
Sampson (uncredited)
Eddy Chandler
Kelly (uncredited)
Berton Churchill
O'Brien (uncredited)
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Released during the actual 1932 banking crisis — audiences watching bank runs while living through them. Talk about uncomfortable mirrors.
Capra's last film before the Production Code clamped down. Notice how the adultery subplot just... exists, unpunished? That vanishes in his later work.
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