"White Christmas"

[sergebroom]

Yesterday evening, my wife and I began the Season's movie-watching. The opening salvo was 1954's White Christmas.

"Many men have tried to split us up, but no one can
Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister
And Lord help the sister, who comes between me and my man."

Next on our list? Alastair Sim's Christmas Carol... Frederic Back's animated short Crac... Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer even though Santa is show to be a jerk... Mark Morris's The Hard Nut... Don Siegel's short film A Star in the Night... The grand finale will of course be Charlie Brown's Christmas Special...

Somewhere in there, while my wife isn't around, I'll sneak in Blackadder's Christmas Carol and Matt Groening's Olive the Other Reindeer. Maybe It's A wonderful Life, in which a man bitter at Life's opportunities having passed him by is contemplating suicide on Christmas Eve.

Comments

[jongibbs.livejournal.com]

He was good in the St. Trinians movies too :)

[serge-lj.livejournal.com]

Your comment is a reminder that there are so many British movies I don't know about. A couple of years ago, Turner Classic Movies had a month-long focus on Ealing Studios (Hey! That's Audrey Hepburn in a bit part of that Alec Guiness comedy!), but obviously they only scratched the surface.

As for the St.Trinian films, here's what imdb.com said about one:

These schoolgirls are more interested in racing forms than books as they try to get-rich-quick. They are abetted by the head-mistress' brother, played by Alastair Sim, who also plays the head-mistress.

Alastair Sim in drag?
What a troubling idea.