Capra

[kap-ruh]

noun

1. Frank, 1897–1991, U.S. film director and producer, born in Italy.

Capra

/ ˈkæprə /

noun

1. Frank. 1896–1992, US film director born in Italy. His films include It Happened One Night (1934), It's a Wonderful Life (1946), and several propaganda films during World War II.

Example Sentences

No matter when you tuned in, he was telling it like it is, for 25 straight hours with passion, insight, inspiration and empathy, like something out of a Frank Capra movie.

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That is the audience-flattering message of American cinema at least since Frank Capra's "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington": Good will eventually triumph over evil because of the innate virtue and common sense of the people.

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That, as any connoisseur of black-and-white movies will tell you, is the fictional town in Frank Capra's famous feature It's A Wonderful Life.

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Famously, the Frank Capra directed fantasy drama failed to break even when it was first released, but became a TV fixture after the rights to the film entered the public domain in 1974.

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It is a movie about internet populism à la Frank Capra — if Mr. Smith went to Reddit.

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