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primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« on: November 27, 2014, 01:03:22 PM »
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Wed Nov 26, 2014, 01:22 PM
Star Member CTyankee (42,112 posts)

which old holiday movie do you always want to see on TV every Xmas season?

My husband has a standard list, from which he has just checked off the Alastair Sim movie "A Christmas Carol." He was thrilled that it was shown early this year!

I like the original "Miracle on 34th St." because I love the "feel" of it.

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Wed Nov 26, 2014, 02:00 PM
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2. None of 'em.

Sentimental schlock, all of them - bah, humbug. I do kind of like "Scrooged," though.

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Wed Nov 26, 2014, 02:20 PM
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3. There are two tv Christmas movies I'd love to see again

One is "The Gathering" with Ed Asner. He plays a man who wants to make amends with his family before he dies. Sounds depressing, but it is not. It is warm, and I love the "feel of it" ( as you put it)

The other one is "The house without a Christmas tree" starring Jason Robards. It is about a girl and her bitter father and sweet grandmother.

I saw those movies when I was little in the 70's, but they don't get aired anymore

That sounds like a biopic on some of the DUmp households.

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10. I like and watch only "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

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Wed Nov 26, 2014, 11:42 PM
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28. At one time, it was sponsored by Dolly Madison Bakery

The combination of Charlie Brown's Christmas and Dolly Madison commercials was really special for me in those days.

And then, there was the Grinch. I had the book, and was eagerly looking forward to the first showing of the animated cartoon, which was on December 18, 1966. But on the day it was to be broadcast, I got really sick and was not able to watch it. I was so disappointed that I had to wait another year before I could watch it

Another ancient primitive comes out of the woodwork to talk about their pre-primitive halcyon days.

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Wed Nov 26, 2014, 07:26 PM
Star Member angstlessk (7,079 posts)
16. It's a Wonderful Life

It is a 100% holiday movie..it was considered communistic at the time

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Wed Nov 26, 2014, 10:37 PM
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26. Not a movie, but: The Year Without a Santa Claus

Also, I'd never seen it before last year, but definitely on my annual list from now on:

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

And that IS a feature film!!

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32. Laurel and Hardy's version of "Babes in Toyland" from the early 1930s

it is a hoot. One of the Nashville TV stations must have owned a copy because they showed it often and somewhat erratically throughout the Christmas season. If we knew when it was coming on, we would plan gift wrapping, tree decorating or baking around it.

I found the DVD on Amazon and sent copies to my sisters who immediately knew it came from me even though the box said Amazon.

If you can locate it, do watch it.

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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2014, 05:33:04 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on November 27, 2014, 01:03:22 PM
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I think I'll watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians this evening.

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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #2 on: November 27, 2014, 05:44:57 PM »
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10. I like and watch only "A Charlie Brown Christmas."

Yet the message of it completely escapes you.
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #3 on: November 27, 2014, 08:08:35 PM »
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10. I like and watch only "A Charlie Brown Christmas."
Yet the message of it completely escapes you.

That's why she's "WinkyDink".
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #4 on: November 28, 2014, 02:21:19 PM »
Song of the South !
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #5 on: November 28, 2014, 05:01:48 PM »
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #6 on: November 28, 2014, 05:40:23 PM »
Die Hard is a great Christmas classic movie.  :-)
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #7 on: November 28, 2014, 05:46:33 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on November 28, 2014, 05:40:23 PM
Die Hard is a great Christmas classic movie.  :-)

It is!

Ditto for Lethal Weapon.
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #8 on: November 28, 2014, 06:15:57 PM »
Quote from: Big Dog on November 27, 2014, 05:33:04 PM
I think I'll watch Santa Claus Conquers the Martians this evening.

Don't skip out on Santa Claus, episode 521.  I think that one is as fun to watch as the martians one.  :-)
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #9 on: November 28, 2014, 06:27:48 PM »
Here at the BH household, we always end up watching:

It's a Wonderful Life

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

Christmas Story

The Bishop's Wife

Christmas in Connecticut

Charlie Brown Christmas

We also listen to the radio adaptation of A Christmas Carol- the one that runs about ~3 hours.  It's much better than any movie, in my opinion.

I'm sure I'm missing a few.  I have no desire to watch any of the newer ones, really.  They just don't do anything for me.



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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #10 on: November 28, 2014, 06:32:02 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on November 28, 2014, 06:27:48 PM

I have a 10" LP, much older than I am, that was a favorite in my family, although for obvious reasons I've never heard it.

Lionel Barrymore reading A Christmas Carol, although surely it was much-condensed.
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #11 on: November 28, 2014, 06:34:32 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on November 28, 2014, 06:15:57 PM
Don't skip out on Santa Claus, episode 521.  I think that one is as fun to watch as the martians one.  :-)

We shouldn't forget "Santa's Slay" with former wrestler Bill Goldberg as a killer Santa Claus
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #12 on: November 28, 2014, 06:39:24 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 28, 2014, 06:32:02 PM
Quote from: BattleHymn on November 28, 2014, 06:27:48 PM

I have a 10" LP, much older than I am, that was a favorite in my family, although for obvious reasons I've never heard it.

Lionel Barrymore reading A Christmas Carol, although surely it was much-condensed.

I have heard the radio adaptation of Barrymore's reading.  I wonder if it's the same as what you have? 

It's about an hour long on the radio. 
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #13 on: November 28, 2014, 06:57:42 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on November 28, 2014, 06:39:24 PM
I have heard the radio adaptation of Barrymore's reading.  I wonder if it's the same as what you have? 

It's about an hour long on the radio.

It apparently was a radio show broadcast in 1939, and then put on an LP some time later, whenever LPs were 10" rather than 12"--so I'm guessing late 1940s, maybe?

Another old family favorite--which I have, but never heard--is a 12" LP, probably late 1950s, of Groucho Marx in The Mikado.
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #14 on: November 28, 2014, 08:13:47 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on November 28, 2014, 06:15:57 PM
Don't skip out on Santa Claus, episode 521.  I think that one is as fun to watch as the martians one.  :-)

I'll look it up on Youtube.

Thanks!
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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2014, 10:03:38 PM »
Quote from: franksolich on November 28, 2014, 06:57:42 PM
It apparently was a radio show broadcast in 1939, and then put on an LP some time later, whenever LPs were 10" rather than 12"--so I'm guessing late 1940s, maybe?

Another old family favorite--which I have, but never heard--is a 12" LP, probably late 1950s, of Groucho Marx in The Mikado.

Is it on the MGM label, like this?  http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/390966423687?lpid=82

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Re: primitives discuss holiday movie classics
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2014, 10:08:32 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on November 28, 2014, 10:03:38 PM
Is it on the MGM label, like this?  http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/390966423687?lpid=82



^^^exact copy



^^^exact but without the DVD label


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