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- Clarence gets called to the job by two senior angels who've heard about George's predicament. They bring him up to speed on George's life by watching a film by Frank Capra called It's a Wonderful Life.
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Clarence tells George and the watchman that he comes from heaven, and he was sent to help George as his guardian angel. "I'm worth more dead than alive," George says, but Clarence tells him that he cannot have that kind of an attitude.
"You see George, you really had a wonderful life," Clarence says. George asks Clarence where Mary is, and Clarence tells him that she's an old maid, just about to close up the library. George runs to the library and sees Mary closing the doors of the library; she does not recognize him.
In the distant reaches of the night sky, two illuminated clusters of stars in galaxies far, far away are shining. They're actually two senior angels. They discuss George's troubling situation before dispatching a novice angel, Clarence, to go down to Earth and keep George from taking his own life.
Clarence is shown flashbacks of George’s life, witnessing 12-year-old George saving his younger brother Harry (Todd Karns) from drowning, an act that leaves George deaf in one ear. George also prevents Mr. Gower (H.B. Warner), the pharmacist, from accidentally poisoning a customer’s prescription.
To begin, they show Clarence moments from George's life to prepare him. We see George at 12 save his brother Harry when he falls into a river in the winter. In the course of the rescue, George loses hearing in his left ear.
After George says he wishes he was never born, Clarence shows George what the world would be like without him. They visit George's loved ones, who are lonely and unhappy. As they journey through Pottersville (formerly Bedford Falls), George sees how terrible everything is now.
