Frank Capra
Language
English
Description
"Apple Annie has a daughter, Louise, who was raised in a Spanish convent, and believes her mother is a society matron who lives in a fashionable New York hotel. When Louise announces that she plans to visit her mother to introduce her aristocratic fiancé, Apple Annie's friends and customers, including lovable gangster Dave the Dude, Judge Henry D. Blake and Missouri Martin rally around to transform her from a poor street peddler into the elegant...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1153
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness ... and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery...