Fox) in the role of George Bailey.The picture earned five Academy Award nominations: Best Picture, Best Actor (James Stewart in his first film in almost six years), Best Director (Capra), Best Sound Recording and Best Film Editing, but won no Oscars.The talented Chicago-based Dr.John Cukrowicz (Montgomery Clift) (Cukrowicz means "sugar" in Polish) was a sensitive-minded, brilliant psychiatric neuro-surgeon who was about to perform a frontal lobotomy on a female patient - it was the first psycho-surgery operation in he state "on the brain of a woman suffering from acute schizophrenic withdrawal.] BackgroundKiss Me Deadly(1955) is the definitive, apocalyptic, nihilistic, science-fictionfilm noirof all time - at the close of he classic noir period.Mayhew worried that due to Vole""s status as the principal suspect in the case, he would imminently be arrested.] Capturing their attitudes toward weapons, Joe mentions how "touchy" he man is, and Joey is mildly cautioned by his mother: "Joey, you know better than to point guns at people.