Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Dirtylogy It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.

Janae Milner Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

Guillelmina The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

johnnydogg This is not the feel good film that makes you cry at the end like Capra's other movie "it's a wonderful life" was. Glenn Ford is hard to believe as a top gangster of nyc. He has a "hickish" boyish look to him and looks to be from a farm land state not nyc. Bette Davis is annoying to look at she has a few snarky lines in the film . You never really grow to like her character or to root for her. Peter Falk was ok but a little over done with the Italian accent but much more believable as a gangster than was Glenn Ford. When I saw all the top ratings on imdb I gave this movie a try. I'll never do that again. The last 3 movies with great user reviews have let me down. You'll wait all through the film for something great to happen but it'll never come.

alfadogmusic They just don't make movies like this anymore! Frank Capra brought magic to the silver screen and A Pocketful Of Miracles is as good as movie making gets! Great storyline, great characters, great acting, and great directing!

bear1955 It was just my first time seeing this on TCM. I would not buy a DVD of this on discount if I could find one. I am being harsh. It is deserved in my opinion. I felt the opening was a flashback and the cast played the rest as it was of the moment (1961-ish). Sets and costumes did not channel the 30s or 40s in my mind. A Spanish Count and son being such an important and romantic figure when the first version was made, OK, but this 1961 movie pretends very poorly that it takes place in the 1930s. A fail, in my mind. "Apple Annie" - Bette Davis did it like the old days, out of all of them! She was in the center of it all, but out of sync; she should have screamed at the others with all that energy shown at times in this film, "get out of my movie!" Her somewhat acclaimed performance is largely wasted here. It is a bit overbearing and hard to take during the long watch. Too bad they didn't have Lillian Gish, I'm sure. They wanted Shirley Booth, actually for "Apple Annie". Nice lady I'm sure, but insufferable, to me, to watch.A few winks added here and it would be very plain that of the cast were playing it for laughs..while others were there for drama. Perhaps I should have not been stunned to read after I watched and wrote this (before edit) that other famed actresses and actors turned down the major roles. Even Sinatra! Other issues along the way did not stop this project from being made. If Davis had different actors to play off it might have worked much better. Glenn Ford's one-dimensional "Dave the Dude" is worst of the lot. We get emotional high (to relieve concerns for for "Apple Annie" losing face), the film is unable to take us there. We don't burst into joy to such as "Apple Annie" does, as the VIPs and pols burst in to the fancy reception for Louise, bride to be (Ann-Margret), and her husband to be, and the his father, The Count. No bell rings, no angel gets his (her) wings. It seems a Capra knock-off!What is needed is to explain how the pols and power that be were "tuned", to continue the charade at center of film, in the next climactic scene is unsaid and is not revealed by the acting, not by by facial expressions nor verbal inflections. The acting, writing and staging was not of that caliber. It is quite unresolved. The movie is then unredeemed.Afterwards there a brief, lame coda. Worthy of a TV drama of the times.

marybird9 The only redeeming value in this film is Glenn Ford, Peter Falk, and the rest of their gangster goodfellas. They were the best part of this film. I really didn't like this film. I didn't find this film heartwarming at all. Why was everyone so willing to help Apple Annie? This question was never answered for me. The gruffness of Apple Annie comes across well. Her physical appearance (before the makeover) is just awful? Did they have to make her look quite so bad? I didn't see any genuine sweetness in her at all, except towards her daughter, Louise. Just because she said "God bless you" and sometimes exempted her friends from paying what amounts to shakedown money? In the final scene, Apple Annie says to her street friends, "I'm going to have to ask you for an extra $1 a month." After they went above and beyond to help Annie out of her predicament?! I fail to see any redeeming quality in Ms. Davis' portrayal of Apple Annie or in this film. It leaves me cold.