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Gary Jive
May 21, 20244 min read
Carol For Another Christmas (1964) - Day 147, May 21st
Of course, just as I’m commending the broad eclecticism of the Christmas movie, fate flings up yet another riff on Dickens’ ‘A Christmas...
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Gary Jive
May 20, 20243 min read
The Merry World of Leopold Z (1965) - Day 146, May 20th
Merrily prancing into the 1960s, my next film turns out to be something completely different and very unlike anything I’ve watched so...
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Gary Jive
May 19, 20243 min read
Susan Slept Here (1954) - Day 145, May 19th
My next classic film, 1954’s Susan Slept Here is a blast, though with a premise that most definitely would not fly these days. This is...
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Gary Jive
May 18, 20243 min read
The Great Rupert (1950) - Day 144, May 18th
After we met The Lemon Drop Kid yesterday, one of Bob Hope’s old comedy sparring partners Jimmy Durante joins us next with 1950’s The...
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Gary Jive
May 17, 20242 min read
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) - Day 143, May 17th
The mood shifts to some lightweight breezy respite next with 1951 Bob Hope vehicle The Lemon Drop Kid. This one, directed by Sidney...
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Gary Jive
May 16, 20243 min read
The Holly and the Ivy (1952) - Day 142, May 16th
We’re back to some semblance of normality with our next festive fifties flick The Holly and the Ivy from 1952. Directed by George More...
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Gary Jive
May 15, 20243 min read
The Snow Maiden (1952) - Day 141, May 15th
There’s something entirely different next with 1952’s trippy but grim Russian animation The Snow Maiden (aka Snegurochka). In a nutshell,...
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Gary Jive
May 14, 20243 min read
Trail of Robin Hood (1950) - Day 140, May 14th
More traditional thrills up next with the festive musical western Trail of Robin Hood from 1950 starring Roy Rogers as a heroic cowboy...
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Gary Jive
May 13, 20243 min read
Santa Claus Vs The Devil (1959) - Day 139, May 13th
Next day, I move on to the festive films of the ‘50s, which I’m really looking forward to, though I’m also thoroughly knackered. We’ve...
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Gary Jive
May 12, 20244 min read
Star in the Night (1945) and Christmas in July (1940) Day 138, May 12th
Next up...whoops! Much like Piccadilly Circus will reveal itself to be a pretty crappy circus (no animals or clowns!) I was fished in by...
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Gary Jive
May 11, 20243 min read
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) - Day 137, May 11th
The plot of my next film, 1940’s The Shop Around the Corner is suspiciously familiar. Ernst Lubitsch’s film follows two Budapest shop...
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Gary Jive
May 10, 20243 min read
The Curse of the Cat People (1944) - Day 136, May 10th
Something entirely different and far more outlandish comes next with 1944’s The Curse of the Cat People from co-directors Gunther Von...
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Gary Jive
May 9, 20243 min read
I'll Be Seeing You (1944) - Day 135, May 9th
I’m starting to notice that a lot of these festive ‘40s flicks have some heavy themes of tragic, doomed romance and 1944’s I’ll Be Seeing...
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Gary Jive
May 8, 20244 min read
Miracle on 34th Street (1947) - Day 134, May 8th
Holly jolly happy endings are the order of the day with the 1947 original version of Miracle on 34th Street, from director George Seaton....
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Gary Jive
May 7, 20243 min read
Remember the Night (1940) - Day 133, May 7th
Barbara Stanwyck returns in my next ‘40s yuletide tale, the more breezy and whimsical Remember the Night from 1940. This time she’s Lee,...
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Gary Jive
May 6, 20243 min read
Meet John Doe (1941) - Day 132, May 6th
We continue our voyage through 1940s cinema with a look at Frank Capra’s other awesome (but less Christmassy) Christmas film Meet John...
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Gary Jive
May 5, 20243 min read
Christmas Eve (1947) - Day 131, May 5th
The theme of wealthy folks scheming to try and stay and stay rich continues with the unimaginatively titled Christmas Eve, also from...
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Gary Jive
May 4, 20243 min read
The Cheaters (1945) - Day 130, May 4th
There’s further clever, well-written conniving antics going down in 1945’s The Cheaters, the tale of a wealthy family scheming to prevent...
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Gary Jive
May 3, 20242 min read
Larceny, Inc. (1942) - Day 129, May 3rd
Clever tricks and cunning ploys are the order of the day in 1942’s Larceny, Inc., a neat little comedic heist film set during the...
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Gary Jive
May 2, 20242 min read
Beyond Tomorrow (1940) - Day 128, May 2nd
Next stop on our tour of the movies of Christmas past is 1940, with A. Edward Sutherland’s supernatural oddity Beyond Tomorrow. This is a...
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​ Scientists say that “watching Christmas movies all year round can be a benefit to your health.” But what would happen if you watched them every day for a year? One man decided to find out.
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- Gary Jive
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