Amazon Prime Video's version of the Christmas classic 'It's a Wonderful Life' has sparked controversy for omitting the crucial 'Pottersville' sequence. This scene, showcasing the bleak alternative reality of Bedford Falls without George Bailey, is seen as vital to the film's message. The removal has led to accusations of censorship and a watered-down version of the beloved holiday film.
The streamer’s cut version of It’s a Wonderful Life is an abomination – but perhaps not a woke bowdlerisation of the originalviewers in the United States discovered that the streamer’s version of the seasonal favourite It’s a Wonderful Life omitted the crucial “Pottersville” sequence.
In Prime’s abridged version we cut directly from George sarcastically asking Clarence whether he has the $8,000 he needs to avoid bankruptcy and disgrace to George running joyfully through the snowy streets, crying “Merry Christmas, Bedford Falls!” The unwary viewer will conclude that Clarence was sent on his mission to Earth merely to provide a heavenly bridging loan.
An internal memo for J Edgar Hoover’s FBI at the time of the film’s original release was unimpressed by its depiction of bankers and the upper class.
What is more likely to have happened is that Prime simply wasn’t paying proper attention to the inventory it was licensing. It is largely forgotten now, but the so-called golden age of films on TV, when schedules were packed with classic titles, was also a time when movies were treated with contempt by broadcasters, who clearly couldn’t care less about the quality of their print-to-video transfers.
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