Despite critical acclaim, cult status, or commercial success, some fantasy movies become worse as time goes by.

“It’s a Wonderful Life” is loosely based on the 1943 short story “The Greatest Gift,” written by Philip Van Doren Stern.

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I Know Where I’m Going, released in December 1945, was almost the last in an arc of films, by Michael Powell and Emeric ...