Two heavenly angels are conversing together.They have heard the prayers for the film""s hero, George Bailey (James Stewart), a man overwhelmed by his problems.That evening in his apartment as he listened to TV reports of increasing tension and escalation by the Russian premier, a preoccupied Clark had completely forgotten about attending a formal Press Awards dinner with Lois.A memorable lamenting saxophone score by Bernard Herrmann (his last) accompanies the film.[Note: He provided some of cinema""s best-known musical accompaniments, for such films as Alfred Hitchcock""s well-knownVertigo (1958),North by Northwest (1959),andPsycho (1960), and for Orson Welles""Citizen Kane (1941)andThe Magnificent Ambersons (1942).The stark, uncompromising film was nominated for three Academy Awards (Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Film Editing), but went away Oscar-less.He then slashed through he bloody sinews, causing Phillip to frantically fall to his death from the tower, as the other teen patients witnessed his horrible demise(# 1 death).