TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Holiday

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   Annie Van Auken says:

   October 7, 2009 at 2:33 pm

   Warner TCM GREATEST CLASSIC COLLECTION film is a series of more than two dozen packets of twins. The four titles in each set are dubbed by one side on two discs flip. Only a few films include bonus features. The quality of transfer of these well-preserved ever popular films is top-notch. Quotes in TCM's "Holiday" which are classified in 7s and 8s at IMDb. — Any curiosity about the film version of Dickens' famous story of Yule has its fans, and the '38 A Christmas Carol is no exception. This release Loew 69 minutes of interesting features of a company behind Reginald Owen as Ebenezer Scrooge. Gene and Kathleen Lockhart are Bob and Mrs. Cratchit, and their daughter has a baby in June Cratchit. Leo G. Carroll is the ghost of Marley and Ann Rutherford portrays "Christmas Past." Silent-era clown Billy Bevan, who also lent his voice hoarse low in early Looney Tunes shorts, looks like "Leader of Street Watch". In the romantic comedy CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945), Sydney Greenstreet is the third turnover by Barbara Stanwyck and Dennis Morgan. Character of Miss Stanwyck was based on Gladys Taber, magazine columnist gentleman who lived on a farm in Connecticut. John Dehner cameos as a cop. Dehner began as a Disney animator, has since appeared frequently on radio – was the champion Have Gun, Will Travel. Other members of the cast: Reginald Gardiner, Una O'Connor, Frank Jenks. Also here is "ditzy blonde" specialist Joyce Compton. (To see Miss Compton to its nuttiest, check out Eddie Sutherland 1940 turn-of-the-century farce, the villain still catching up, with Alan Mowbray, Buster Keaton as the bad and play the opposite.) It happened on Fifth Avenue ( 1947) was the first Allied Artists release. This company was formed when the images monogram and two outfits smaller units. Frank Capra was expected to direct producer-director Roy Del Ruth bought the film rights to the story of a homeless man and his friends who take advantage of a Manson left empty, while owners are away on holiday. The fine cast includes Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Mature, Gale Storm, Grant Mitchell, Edward Brophy, and Alan Hale Jr. Romance Ernst Lubitsch's holiday THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940) was a first screen adaptation of the Hungarian playwright Miklos Laszlo's "Perfumeria" (aka "Illatszertár"). This story was later used for the musical 1949, in The Good Old Summertime "and in 1998 for" You've Got Mail. Director Lubitsch, who also worked in a shop in Budapest as a boy, named this his favorite film. Unlike most productions, all the scenes were shot sequentially. Cast includes Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut and a walk-on, Sarah Edwards.
     Rating: 5 / 5