Christmas Holiday
by Robert Siodmak
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DVD Cover Information
Actor: Dean Harens, Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Gladys George, Richard WhorfDirector: Robert Siodmak
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown)
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, NTSC
Running Time: 93 unknown-units
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Nostalgia Home Video
Product features:
- These DVD's are produced by Nostalgia Family Video and Come in a "No Frillz" set. DVD titles come in clear clamshell packaging with no DVD menu and no individual title artwork.
Movie Reviews of Christmas Holiday
Movie Review: Gene Kelly "tap dances" his way out of prison
Summary: 4 Stars
CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY (1944) was adapted by Herman Mankiewicz from Somerset Maugham's novel. This one's considered by many to be film noir. The title suggests a cheery musical, but the picture's really a dense, dark melodrama.
A lieutenant (Dean Harens) returns home on Xmas leave so he can marry his fiancée, but he finds a letter from her telling him she's taken up with someone else. The depressed soldier accompanies a reporter to a nightclub, where he meets the club's girl singer (Deanna Durbin), after she performs "Spring Will Be a Little Late This Year."
She asks him to go to church with her, and the lady starts crying while at Mass. The lieutenant takes her to a diner and the girls's story is revealed in flashback. Next comes the meat of the movie. It involves Durbin's troubled marriage to Gene Kelly, who is a real louse. I'll say this much: blood is spilled. Viewers are taken on one heckuva ride before the story ends!
If you haven't yet seen CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY, put this one on your Xmas "to do" list!
Also recommended:
Deanna Durbin is witness to a murder that nobody believes she saw in LADY ON A TRAIN (1945). This is available, along with four of her more typically "frothy" titles on the budget-priced DEANNA DURBIN SWEETHEART PACK.
Parenthetical number preceding title is a 1 to 10 viewer poll rating found at a film resource website.
(6.6) Christmas Holiday (1944) - Deanna Durbin/Gene Kelly/Richard Whorf/Dean Harens/Gladys George/Gale Sondergaard/David Bruce (uncredited: John Hamilton)
Summary of Christmas Holiday
Dark drama follows the saga of a cabaret singer (Deanna Durbin) in WWII New Orleans who, through a series of flashbacks, relates to a stranded G.I. the sad story of her marriage to a murderous ne'er-do-well (Gene Kelly). Loosely adapted from W. Somerset Maugham's novel by "Citizen Kane" scribe Herman J. Mankiewicz, the film co-stars Gale Sondergaard, Richard Whorf. 93 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English.These DVD's are produced by Nostalgia Family Video and Come in a "No Frillz" set. DVD titles come in clear clamshell packaging with no DVD menu and no individual title artwork.Similar DVD Movies
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