This image is from one of my favourite classic movies, You Can't Take It With You. In it, Tony Kirby (played by James Stewart) has asked Alice Sycamore (Jean Arthur) to marry him. The problem is, he comes from a wealthy family of bankers while Alice's family is a lot humbler and... er... eccentric. Alice plans a dinner party so that the two families can meet, striving to show her relations in the most favorable light possible, hoping to convince Tony's parents that her family is, if not wealthy, at least respectable. Tony, who is charmed by Alice's unusual family, dislikes the idea of putting them on display for his parents and so deliberately brings Mr and Mrs Kirby to dinner on the wrong night so that they will see the Sycamores/Vanderhoffs as they really are. The evening is not a success. The harder Alice and her family try to make the Kirby's comfortable, the more mishaps occur. The disastrous visit comes to a premature- and shocking- end when the house is swarmed by FBI agents, the illegal fireworks cache in the basement explodes, and everyone present- including the Kirbys- are arrested and taken to jail. This is where the above image is from; unable to contact his lawyers, Mr. Kirby is in a rage, berating everyone including Tony over the situation until finally the usually good humored Grandpa Vanderhoff loses his temper and tells him a few home truths about his character.
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