And a Merry Christmas to both of you FRascals!
Posted on 12/13/2025 4:02:22 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
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I agree completely!
Thanks for that wonderful post.... I was just wonder about WWII Christmas movies. Silent Night as you explained it rang a little bell in my head, I might have seen part of it.
Your post about Charlie Browns Christmas made me tear up a bid, my mom told me 20 years ago, that was the only time Linus dropped his blanket.
You nailed it on all of the rest. I can’t wait to check out The Shepard.
And a Merry Christmas to both of you FRascals!
Merry Christmas to you too. FRiend.
What ever happened to Santa Claus Conquers the Martians in 1964. And there were some legit ones like 1951: The Lemon Drop Kid, 1955: Young at Heart, and many others that don’t hint at Christmas, they add to it.
wy69
Have you ever seen Christmas in Connecticut or Come to the Stable? There is also It Happened on Fifth Avenue, The Lemon Drop Kid, and Nicholas Cage’s Family Man. Miracle on 34th Street (the old one) is also a treasure. Many people love The Bishop’s Wife and In the Good Old Summertime, which is a re-working of Shop Around the Corner.
A made-for-TV movie from 1969 with Lloyd Bridges and Shirley Jones as two unhappily-marrieds meeting in a small college town in New England. From the play by Robrt Anderson.
“Silent Night, Lonely Night”
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064983/
~~~ My favorite Christmas movie ~~~
... is the John Candy vehicle 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨. Suppose the creator of a world woke up inside it? In this film, a soap opera writer suffers a concussion, and finds himself inside his imaginary soap opera village. With his creative powers intact. He immediately demonstrates the wrong way to do incarnation, by flaunting his powers for personal aggrandizment. By doing so, he distorts the integrity of the characters around him, forcing them to act out of character.
Then he discovers that a rival writer is at work in this little universe, and warping the plot even further.
This is a great movie to watch with Muslim friends.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101701/
We don’t let my brother pick the Christmas movies anymore!
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No one mentioned "Jingle All the Way", where Schwarzenegger vied with a maniacal mailman to obtain a super-rare toy for his boy. While some of the jokes were so-so this movie was spot-on about how too many people allow commercialism/consumerism squash the true meaning of Christmas.
There was a lot of support for an actual Turbo Man movie starring Arnold but nothing ever came of it.
Good one! The Waltons' Homecoming: A Christmas Story is a classic.
In our family, A Christmas Story was the #1 favorite.
Also, the animated Christmas specials, such as the original "How the Grinch Stole Christmas!"
Is Ben Hur on the list?
I missed the Christmas trees in that one...LOL
I always think of it as an Easter movie...but that’s just me.
Good list! I’m glad you left out Elf.
Niiice. Audrey was beautiful to me. Just the physical beauty, well, actually, what I’ve read about her and how she behaved also has greatly influenced my thinking. Seems that she was a pretty nice lady and not grossly immoral. Maybe I was wrong. Actually, what makes a woman beautiful is her heart/behavior. Nothing else ultimately matters, like my wife.
The opening scene in Ben Hur is the birth of Christ.
And the closing scenes are His sacrifice.
It is both a Christmas and a Passover movie.
Jimmy Stewart was deep in the throes of PTSD when he made that movie. He was a bomber pilot in WW2.
I remember ‘’The Wizard of O’’ being played near Easter, not Christmas.
“We’re No Angels”, Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray.
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