A boardroom speech from banker Thomas Dickson, written by Robert Ryskin, directed by Frank Capra and delivered by Walter Huston in “American Madness” (1932). Capra and Ryskin collaborated on many films, including “Lady for a Day,” “It Happened One Night,” “Mr. Deeds Goes to Town,” “Lost Horizon” and “Meet John Doe.”
Capranomics: Banking on Character
Jim Emerson
Jim Emerson is the founding editor of RogerEbert.com and has written lots of things in lots of places over lots of years. Mostly involving movies.
