Daily Dialogue — November 3, 2018

Clarence: Your brother, Harry Bailey, broke through the ice and was drowned at the age of nine.
George Bailey: That’s a lie! Harry Bailey went to war! He got the Congressional Medal of Honor! He saved the lives of every man on that transport!
Clarence: Every man on that transport died. Harry wasn’t there to save them, because you weren’t there to save Harry.

— It’s a Wonderful Life (1946), screenplay by Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett and Frank Capra, story by Philip Van Doren Stern, additional scenes by Jo Swerling

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Cemetery.

Trivia: The one and only time Frank Capra contributed to a screenplay on one of his films.

Dialogue On Dialogue: A significant moment in George’s transformation, the shock of his brother’s death in this alternative life… where George had never been born.