The Five Best Christmas Movies You’ve (Probably) Never Seen

National Review ^ | Dec 23, 2017 | Arthur Herman

[Oshkalaboomboom]

The first one on this list is on tv every year. The others you have to search for.

[brewcrew1965]

Anyone who describes Die Hard as “hideous fare” should be shunned, mocked, and ridiculed.

[Kickass Conservative]

>>>>but gives us an important film to watch in the era of Donald Trump as well as at Christmas<<<<

They just can’t help themselves, can they?

[bjc]

I grew up with the Sims’ Scrooge. I much prefer the later George C Scott version

[jazminerose]

Bishop’s Wife—I LOVE this movie! It’s just pitch perfect. I mean of course, the original with Cary Grant and Loretta Young, not the remake. TCM is showing it tonight. When you watch it, consider that David Niven was originally cast as the angel and Cary the Bishop. It was Cary’s idea to flip it around and to great effect.

Christmas in Connecticut—one of my favorites, very charming and funny. And of course, there is Barbara Stanwyck. Also a nice patriotic thread runs through it.

Meet John Doe—more Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper. Interesting plot, well acted. Another of my favorites, love Gary Cooper and of course, Barbara Stanwyck is one of a kind.

[dfwgator]

Well Trump was in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York....

[V K Lee]

Search if you must, but “The Bishop’s Wife” is truly one of the best. Loretta Young is stunning, and her performance is superb.

[kevao]

“Larceny, Inc.” (1942), with Edward G. Robinson, could be considered a Christmas movie.

[Teflonic]

[kaehurowing]

Donovan’s Reef (1963) with an all-star cast of John Wayne, Lee Marvin, Elizabeth Allen, Jack Warden, Dorothy Lamour and Cesar Romero.

Set in the fictional French Polynesian paradise of Haleakaloa, it revolves around Christmas.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gO71sOuY-VU

[luvbach1]

...and of course, Barbara Stanwyck is one of a kind.

Watching her in old movies on TCM I've discovered how good she really was: natural, intelligent (even when delivering lines written for her), slim and striking.

[usconservative]

Anyone who describes Die Hard as “hideous fare” should be shunned, mocked, and ridiculed.

You're damn' right!

[Billthedrill]

Yippee ki yay.

[clearcarbon]

Meet John Doe is my favorite Ann Doran movie.

[Nifster]

I’ve seen four of the five. Never heard of the Cheaters

The Bishop’s Wife and the 51 Christmas Carol play every year the Christmas in Connecticut plays about every third year

[Kartographer]

AMEN!

[reed13k]

Add ‘shop around the corner’, holiday inn, white Christmas,

[ransomnote]

bkmrk

[AnotherUnixGeek]

The best of all the film adaptations of Charles Dickens’s classic

Nope. The best adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" is the 1984 version featuring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge. Scott may not be British, but he does his usual brilliant job and I cared about his Scrooge - a hard, lonely man of business with a hard past - far more than I did about Alastair Sim's portrayal of Scrooge as a scrawny miser.