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Direction
Capra's kinetic newsroom energy — he started as a gag writer.
Acting
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s star-making grin, inherited from dad.
Editing
Snappy intertitles that talk faster than talkies ever could.

Director
Frank Capra
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