Henry Travers was as James Stewart's somewhat befuddled but kind-hearted guardian angel Clarence Odbody in Frank Capra's 1946 film "It's a Wonderful Life". Traver's character saves Stewart's from committing suicide, and shows him how wonderful his life really is. Though the film was a financial flop, it later became a Christmas classic and one of the most beloved films in American cinema. However, despite his long life, Travers would never know that his performance as Clarence would become his most celebrated, as the film only became a Christmas television perennial in the 1970s and 1980s, long after the actor's death. Travers retired
I Saw What You Did (1988 film) ends. In his book "Nightmare Movies: Horror on Screen Since the 1960s", Kim Newman argues that "I Saw What You Did" was responsible for the eventual creation of Dark Castle Entertainment, a production company that created remakes of horror films. In "Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography", Lawrence J. Quirk and William Schoell refer to the film as "abysmall" and consider it inferior to the original. Similarly, in his book "Movie and Video Guide 1993", film critic Leonard Maltin refers to the film as "bland", compared to the original. I Saw What You Did (1988 film) I Saw What You Did