Depictions in Fiction
In addition to the plot of It's a Wonderful Life (1946), other fictional depictions of bank runs include those in American Madness (1932) and Mary Poppins (1964).
Arthur Hailey's novel The Moneychangers includes a potentially fatal run on a fictitious US bank.
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