It's hard liquor and gentle comfort as Academy Vs Audience reaches 1945

It's 1945, and with the war wrapping up, the Academy is done with comfort viewings, and hands the top prize to Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend. Audiences, however, are not yet done with joy as an emotion, and flock to the continuing adventures of Father Chuck O'Malley in The Bells of Saint Mary. In one corner, a bleak no-holds-barred look at addiction, or what passed for it under the Hays Code, and in the other, Bing Crosby's Father Chuck sets out to save a school with nothing but empathy and belief in people. Who got what right? Does either movie have enough plot for their runtime? Listen now to find out!

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