This is a Frank Capra movie. It does get a bit too loud at times. Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) and Tony Kirby (James Stewart) are in love and want to marry. However they come from different backgrounds, the tight business world, Anthony P Kirby (Edward Arnold) and Mrs. Kirby (Mary Forbes). And the happy go lucky world of Martin Vanderhoff (Lionel Barrymore) grandfather to Alice. Mr. Vanderhoff left the business world because he wasn't having fun. They now piddle with inventions and fireworks. Mr. Kirby is needing to buy the Vanderhoff home so he can control an entire area for a major business project. The parental meeting is a farce, and the police come and arrest everyone for disturbing the peace and having fireworks without a license. They are all in jail together, and then in court no one wants to acknowledge that their kids are engaged, until grandfather says they were talking business and agrees to sell the home. Then Alice no longer wants to marry and even runs away. Everything is mucked up but a song will bring it back together, "Polly Wally Doodle."
Romantic comedy with a feel good ending. It also tells that we are all human and should not be judging others.
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