Product Details

• Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer, Russell Hopton
• Directors: Frank Capra
• Writers: Dorothy Howell, Jo Swerling, John Meehan, Robert Riskin
• Producers: Frank Capra, Harry Cohn
• Format: Black & White, Original recording remastered, NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• VHS Release Date: June 3, 1997
• Run Time: 90 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 0800113845
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #155,158 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Frank Capra's Darkest Film Might Be his Best, December 29, 2002

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andy7 (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Miracle Woman (Restored) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Predating "Elmer Gantry" (the film) by twenty years is this overlooked gem starring Barbara Stanwyck as a vindictive daughter of a minister. She begins the film with an intense diatribe against religious hypocrisy, but she eventually succumbs to the very corruption she originally railed against.
When she meets a charming blind man her eyes have finally opened up to her sins and "sees the light".
There's a scene that recalls the old "Golden Calf" episode from the Bible involving a party full of drunken carny people revelling at Sister Fallon's home.
Stanwyck's acting in this film is a real eye-opener. She alternates between powerful virtue and an understated sexuality that's subtle and very well done. David Manners' performance was so convincing. He did an unbelieveable job portraying a handicapped man.
TCM shows this film from time to time, but I'd like to see a DVD release so everyone can see what a great film this is.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Frank Capra toying with the formula..., January 4, 2003

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Miracle Woman (Restored) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Barbara Stanwyck as Sister "Faith" Fallon, charismatic leader of a Pentecostal sect. David Manners plays a blind man who falls in love with her after hearing a sermon which rouses hope in him; Frank Capra's unusually blunt attack on religious quackery previews familiar themes of individual moralism and the little guy going up against a crooked system. The baby-cheeked, 20-year-old Stanwyck is drop-dead gorgeous in scene after scene, and brings the house down -- literally -- in the beginning and closing scenes. Nice early exploration of Capra's populist ouvre, but mostly just a chance to admire Stanwyck's incandescence.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Barbara is magical as always in this early role., November 22, 1999

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Ginge "T." (Sydney) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Miracle Woman (Restored) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

The opening scenes of The Miracle Woman are great, and seem as relevant today as they were controversial in 1931. Some of the lines were brilliant and intelligently true, but I guess some people would still consider it blasphemy the way Barbara really lashes out at those hypocrites in charge of her deceased father's church. Though the film lags in certain places, and seems improbable at times, it has a great many fine moments. The best of which are between Barbara and David Manners, who plays the blind man who falls in love with Sister Fallon. Some of the most moving scenes that Frank Capra has filmed. He sure knew how to make love scenes work. Although Miracle Woman lost money at the box office, I still believe that this and his The Bitter Tea Of General Yen deserve their place amongst Mr. Capra's best. I don't understand why these films were banned in Britain. For all it's so called irreverence, the film ends up being a safe story of one woman's journey towards redemption, and the Salvation Army in the end.