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United Kingdom released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), French ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), German ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), English ( Subtitles ), French ( Subtitles ), Greek ( Subtitles ), Romanian ( Subtitles ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Director Frank Capra's last feature film, Pocketful of Miracles is a Technicolor remake of his 1933 film Lady for a Day. A barely recognizable Bette Davis plays Apple Annie, the besotted, unkempt, rag-clad street vendor who controls the activities of all the beggars on Broadway. Apple Annie is the pet of Dave the Dude (Glenn Ford), a tough but basically kind-hearted gangster who believes that Annie's apples bring him luck. One morning, Annie fails to show up at her usual corner. That's because she is sitting disconsolate in her squalid shack, contemplating suicide. The reason: Annie has received a letter from her daughter Louise (Ann-Margret, in her screen debut). Annie has been supporting Louise's high-priced European education, leading the girl to believe that she, Annie, is a high-society dowager. Now Louise is returning home with her wealthy fiance Carlos Romero (Peter Mann) in tow, and it looks as though Annie's cover will be blown to bits. Partly out of sympathy, but mostly because of his superstitious belief in the power of Annie's apples, Dave the Dude arranges with his Broadway cohorts to "doll up" Annie so that she can pass as a woman of means, then stage-manages a huge, expensive reception for Louise and her beau. The complications that ensued in the original 1933 version of Lady for a Day exercise their prerogative once more, with a few added plot twists to pad out Glenn Ford's screen time. Cutting through the sentimental goo like a machete is Peter Falk, who is hilarious as Dave the Dude's...Pocketful of Miracles
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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I first saw this film when it was released. Recently something reminded of it and I bought the DVD. For my taste, the second viewing was as enjoyable as the first but who could fail to enjoy an offering starring Bette Davis and Glenn Ford? Genuinely worthwhile entertainment which includes so much from which we can all learn.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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got this for the wife as she is a Bette davis fanatic she remembers this film from her childhood and has enjoyed watching it again. she has all of bette Davis films on vhs that have been issued but is now trying to get them on dvd.
32 of 35 people found the following review helpful
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My wife and I saw this film some years ago on a wet afternoon on an English seaside holiday. It hasn't aged at all [unlike us] It is still a very humourous, gentle film with acting of the highest order from Bette Davis, Glenn Ford and Peter Falk. There al strong supporting roles from Hope Lange and Thomas Mitchell plus superb cameo roles from Edward Everett Horton as the butler and a young Jack Elam [always a scene stealer!]
This film wins because all the charcters in it - The Governor, the Mayor, the Police chiefs, the criminal fraternity, everyone in fact is played so that you can believe in them. For example you can believe that David Brian is the Governor of New York State. You can believe that the taxi driver towards the end of the film is an actual New York cabbie.
This DVD is worth every penny of sheer escapism!
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Pocketful of Miracles(DVD)
This is a classic.if you like Bette Davies you will love this film. I had not seen this film for a long time so when I saw that Amazon had the DVD I added to my collection.
Published 1 month ago by Carol Graham
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I remember watching this movie as a little girl as it's one of my mother's favourite movies. It is an updated remake of Frank Capra's own 'Lady for a Day'. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Happy Bunny
pocketful of miracles
Nice to see Bette Davis in an, unusual, downmarket role. The film is very enjoyable but perhaps a trifle overlong.
Published on 28 Jan 2010 by Old timer
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Pocketful of Miracles, Frank Capra's 1961 remake of his 1933 hit Lady for a Day [Blu-ray] [1933] [US Import], would be his last film, and it's not hard to see why. Read more
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