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To have these three classics for this gross ticket is astonishing. One film is the 1938 version of the classic Christmas Carol this one starring Reginald Owen as a very proper Scrooge. If you can refrain from comparing him to Alastair Sim, you will be better able to indulge in another interpretation of Scrooge, and it is a handsome one. Owen is truly miserly and depressed, as befits Scrooge, and very believable. The overall production is fabulous, the only drawback was the casting of Terry Kilburn as Petite Tim…Arrangement over the top, to the point where he is annoying. But all in all, a spacious version, and Ann Rutherford as the Ghost of Christmas Past is challenging.
Christmas in Connecticut is very satisfying; a exact modern England Christmas, with Barbara Stanwyck in one of her lighter roles. This is exquisite for those who are alone over the Holidays and a immense film to spy with family for those who will have a broken-down Holiday, with family and friends.
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I saved the best for last…Boys Town.
This is absolutely one of my all-time favorites, with Mickey Rooney in one of his definitve, cocky wise-guy roles. No one could touch a Mickey Rooney performance in this type of role; he cornered the brash market…as he proves in this movie. It is a proper treat to contemplate him interact with Spencer Tracy, THE finest actor Hollywood has ever produced, IMO. He has dignity, he commands respect simply by virtue of his possess level-headed, firm presence.
The other boys were gargantuan complements to the production; all very natural, and Bobs Watson particularly heart-breaking in his role; what a ample actor he was! (If you can rep a copy, eye him with Cedric Hardwicke and Lionel Barrymore in “On Borrowed Time”, a Trusty tear-jerker.)
I wish I could have been on the state of this one! They must have had a ball. When I saw it, as a child, I idea it was a movie, therefore fantasy, and not real; when I found out that Father Flanagan was indeed trusty, as was Boys Town, it gave the movie even more of a dimension and interest. His tenet, “There is no such thing as a dreadful boy”, is touching in its simplicity and pure, simple faith. Father Flanagan’s secret for success with even the most recalcitrant youth was this faith and his refusal to salvage any boy’s lack of self-esteem or understanding in himself; with FF ALL things were possible.
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When Spencer Tracy was voted best Actor at the Academy Awards that year, he became the first actor to gather the award two years in a row…the first was for his fragment as Manuel, in “Captains Fearless.” Being the respectable, unbelievable man he was, he well-liked his award with grievous humility, and gave it to Father Flanagan, whom he highlighted in his acceptance speech.
This movie has drama, excitement and some very laughable moments and shows the extraordinary versatility of a very young Mickey Rooney. A truly big assume.
The Classic Holiday Collection is a grand one - “Boys Town,” “A Christmas Carol,” and, especially, the grand “Christmas In Connecticut” are all movies that you can be pleased year after year.
I objective wish they had also included “The Man Who Came To Dinner” (Bette Davis, Monty Wooley, Ann Sheridan) and “Holiday Affair” (Janet Leigh, Robert Mitchum), two other beloved holiday films that Warners owns. Throw in the tremendous “Care For Finds Andy Hardy,” which has a holiday setting and is already out on DVD, and maybe a disc of Christmas cartoons, and Warners could recount a second holiday collection. (Please do!)
“Christmas In Connecticut” has been a accepted holiday movie of mine since the early `80s, when I caught it by chance for the first time on a local plot while relaxing during a holiday visit to my parents’ house. Although my mom, brother, and I hadn’t really planned to witness a whole movie correct then, we all stayed with this expansive movie until the slay, and really enjoyed it. The wry humor, the sizable actors (Barbara Stanwyck, Sydney Greenstreet, S.Z. Sakall, Dennis Morgan, Reginald Gardner, Una O’Connor), and the warm country setting earn it a movie you’ll want to peer over and over. Since that first viewing almost 25 years ago, I probably haven’t missed seeing it during the holiday season. I’ve been waiting for this to appear on DVD, and am satisfied it’s finally here!
“Boys Town” stars two of the greatest actors of the golden era of Hollywood, Mickey Rooney and Spencer Tracy, and their parts in this movie are among their best roles. “Boys Town” doesn’t have quite as terminate a connection to Christmas as the other two titles in this collection (there’s one scene state on the holiday), but this right account of a priest who builds a boarding school for insecure youth is one that will warm your heart. Tracy plays Father Flanagan, a kind, socially conscious priest who can be tough when he needs to be, and Mickey Rooney displays his wide-ranging acting talent (from tough talk to tears) as one of the neglected boys whom Flanagan sets on the true path.
The 1938 version of “A Christmas Carol” is rotund of incandescent renderings (even though it’s in black-and-white) of very familiar Dickens characters, Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, and Slight Tim among them. Reginald Owen does a first-rate job as Scrooge - showing both his stingy ill-humor and his awakening as a human being — although one wonders how mighty better the movie might have been if Lionel Barrymore had reprised his regular radio role as Scrooge here. (This was apparently the new way of MGM, but Barrymore had health problems that prevented this participation. And he eventually played his gain version of Scrooge in “It’s a Astonishing Life,” of course.) Eminent character actor Gene Lockhart is a bit more portly as Bob Cratchit than I had imagined that character, but he does his usual huge job of portraying the downtrodden Cratchit who maintains a salubrious humor while enduring Scrooge’s abuse. Lockhart’s real-life wife and kids, including young June Lockhart, are featured as other members of the Cratchit family, with the exception of Dinky Tim, who is played by Terry Kilburn. Kilburn is a bit too cute for my taste, but I have to admit that Dickens seems to have intended Tim to be cute. Ann Rutherford, often seen as Andy Hardy’s girlfriend Polly Benedict, does a handsome job as the ghost of Christmas past (although the blonde hair gives her a very different study) . Others have pointed out that MGM slice and changed the memoir a excellent bit, but if you can overlook that, this is a nice, brisk telling of a expansive memoir.
The extras on these discs are outstanding, although perhaps not as numerous as those for some unusual movies. All include the movie trailers; the “Christmas Carol” trailer is especially lively, because Lionel Barrymore appears to tout his friend Reginald Owen as Scrooge, apparently to wait on audiences secure over their disappointment that Barrymore himself wasn’t playing the role himself after appearing in it famously on radio.
The “Christmas In Connecticut” disc includes the outstanding Oscar-winning short film “Star In The Night,” which brings the Nativity myth to a 1940s diner/motel in the desert. Within a compelling re-telling of that dilapidated tale, this film helps the viewer understand how the spirit of Christmas applies in the current era - easily one of the best short films I’ve ever seen.
The “Christmas Carol” disc includes “Jackie Cooper’s Christmas Party,” in which the child star (”The Champ,” “Worship Island”) hosts a party for his friends on an MGM soundstage, with Clark Gable, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, and other stars serving dinner for the kids. (Peek for a very droll Santa Claus played by - well, I won’t extinguish the surprise.) The disc also has a short film of young Judy Garland singing “Tranquil Night” with a choir, and the Oscar-nominated cartoon “Peace on Earth” (1939), which laments man’s self-destructive warring instinct (and which was remade in the 50s as “Agreeable Will To Men” - both with a message that’s calm directly relevant) .
“Boys Town” is accompanied by its fill less-famous sequel, “Men Of Boys Town,” so you’re getting two features on one disc. You also come by a featurette about the valid Boys Town (which unruffled exists and has expanded beyond its recent Nebraska dwelling), as well as a 1939 radio program promoting the movie with Tracy and Rooney.
The Classic Holiday Collection, as its name suggests, is one that will please anyone who loves classic movies or the holiday season. To follow up on this Christmas gift to us, Warners should set out a second volume with some of its other holiday classics!
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