Posted by
Gray Ghost on Friday, December 14, 2007 4:16:43 PM
With it now being a short time to Christmas, I thought I would list my five favorite Christmas Movies. All of these movies I can recommend as great entertainment. I know many are in "Black and White"; but they are all worth watching!
- Miracle on 34th Street
(1947; Rated G): This is my favorite Christmas movie of all time. Edmund Gwenn is convincing as Kris Kringle; and Maureen O’Hara is believable as a woman who has lost her faith in the "wonder and magic" of the "real" world. (When I was twelve years old, I knew I was no longer a child because my parents allowed me to stay up Christmas Eve night and watch this wonderful movie.)
- The Lemon Drop Kid
(1951; Rated G): I have always had a fondness for Bob Hope. This movie is very funny; and the singing of "Silver Bells" by Hope and Marilyn Maxwell is worth watching this movie if only to see this rendition of this song.
- Three Godfathers
(1948; Rated G): John Ford and John Wayne are at their "Western Story-Telling" best. The photography is beautiful; and this is Director John Ford’s best movie concerning redemption.
- Christmas in Connecticut
(1945; Rated G): Barbara Stanwyck is a "fake" housewife who writes "homemaking" articles for a nation-wide magazine. Her boss invites himself and a WW2 veteran to her non-existent home for Christmas. Then the fun begins. Hollywood is missing a bet in not re-making this movie with a returning Iraq war veteran. (By the way, this is my wife’s favorite Christmas movie.)
- A Christmas Carol
(1984; Rated PG): George C. Scott is magnificent as Charles Dickens’ Ebenezer Scrooge. His "Scrooge" is not some money-grabbing miser; but a man who has lost faith in everything. To me, this version of "A Christmas Carol" is the best made in the last sixty years.
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!