Name a film directed by Frank Capra: rare answers

“Name a film directed by Frank Capra” has 37 accepted answers here, and 13 of them (35%) are rare enough for the two deepest tiers. It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington are the Surface answers almost everyone gives.

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Accepted answers: 37
Category: Movies
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 13 (35%)
Alternate spellings accepted: None needed
First letters: 14 different; M is the most common (5)

🐙 Abyssal: 5 answers (14%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 8 answers (22%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 11 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 10 answers (27%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 3 answers (8%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

5 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: The Matinee Idol, So This Is Love?, That Certain Thing, Say It with Sables and The Way of the Strong. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

The Matinee Idol, So This Is Love?, That Certain Thing, Say It with Sables, The Way of the Strong

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

The Power of the Press, The Younger Generation, Long Pants, Flight, Rain or Shine, Submarine, For the Love of Mike, The Donovan Affair

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Platinum Blonde, Ladies of Leisure, American Madness, The Miracle Woman, Broadway Bill, The Strong Man, Forbidden, Dirigible, Riding High, Here Comes the Groom, Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

You Can't Take It with You, Arsenic and Old Lace, Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Pocketful of Miracles, Meet John Doe, A Hole in the Head, The Bitter Tea of General Yen, Lady for a Day, State of the Union

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

Prompts that share answers with this one

Name a film on AFI's 100 Years...100 Movies list (1998 or 2007 edition) (3 shared, such as It's a Wonderful Life, It Happened One Night, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington)
Name a film that won the Oscar for Best Picture (2 shared, such as You Can't Take It with You, It Happened One Night)