I never got what was so great about that movie, but I suppose much of its’ popularity has to do with the Christmas Tradtion in your family. It is a well made film, full of Christian morals and life lessons. My family usually watched other programs and movies during Christmas Season.
We enjoyed the Donna Reed Show when she started that later.
It was explained to me that it was a tribute to all the people who kept the the nation running during the war. The folks that had important work to do on the homefront and what the lives of others around them would be like if they weren’t there to do it.
It didn’t do well at the box office on its release. It’s reputation slowly built to become a holiday classic.
I liked Pottersville better.
It’s popularity comes from a mundane reason. The movie’s copyright was allowed to lapse. It became public domain and free for TV stations to air. The studio finally got ownership back a few years ago.
“I never got what was so great about that movie,...”
“It is a well made film, full of Christian morals and life lessons.”
I can’t stand the movie and avoid it at XMAS.
There were a few years it was on all the time on every channel because the copyright had lapsed and stations could show it without paying for it. Then RKO finally renewed it.
It is a well made film, full of Christian morals and life lessons.
Perhaps more movies should be made with these messages.