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It’s coming on Christmas, and boy do the cable channels know it. Here are some of our favorite holiday movies to watch for this weekend:
TCM is starting their holiday fare tonight (Here’s their schedule for the weekend). One of our favorites from the bunch is Holiday Affair (9pm), with Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh (aka the lady from Psycho). Leigh plays a widowed young mother who gets caught comparison shopping, and Robert Mitchum plays a friendly drifter who falls for her. The boy who plays her son isn’t too cute to make you sick. Keep an eye out for a girl with a balloon and roller skates - and also Henry Morgan (who we know best from MASH and Dragnet) playing a bewildered judge.
Also on TCM tonight is the lesser-known holiday comedy crime caper Fitzwilly (10:30pm) with a youngish Dick van Dyke and the lovely Barbara Feldon (99 in one of her few film roles). Dick van Dyke plays butler for an older woman who doesn’t know she’s bankrupt. Barbara Feldon comes to help the woman with the dictionary she’s writing and ends up falling for Fitzwilly. It’s screwballish and quite hilarious. Ever since we saw it for the first time a few years ago, we try to watch it every December. It is not on DVD yet, so it’s worth trying to catch on TV.
It’s a Wonderful Life, (7pm, Saturday, NBC/KXAN), "Hee-haw, hee-haw!" "I wish I had a million dollars! Hot dog!" "Buffalo gals, wontcha come out tonight. . ." Okay, obviously, we’ve seen this film more than a couple times. This film was a dud when it came out, but repeated TV playing has led to it becoming a classic. We still love when George finally smooches Mary, when he finds Zuzu’s petals in his pockets, and we usually end up choked up at the end. A hokey classic, yes, but it’s our favorite hokey classic.
Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (9pm, Saturday, TOON). Boris Karloff narrates our favorite holiday-themed toon.
24 hours of A Christmas Story (starts at 7pm Saturday and plays all day Sunday, TBS). Can you get enough of this 1983 film when the holidays run around?
Home for the Holidays (7pm, Saturday, WE). We usually watch this film at Thanksgiving. All the acting in it is great - even Steve Guttenberg, and that’s saying something. It’s a bizarre and touching little film about family disfunction and love.
And finally, White Christmas (11:30am, Sunday, KNVA/WB). Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, Bing Crosby, and (a sadly anorexic) Vera Ellen sing and save an old army-man's inn.
Happy Holidays!
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I hate A Christmas Story. The first time I watched, it was great. But now, after 20 years of seeing it over and over and over and over and over and over again, I can't stand it. I would give anything to shoot Ralphie in the head with something larger than a BB gun.
Oh, and Merry Christmas, E. :-)
You can't be 80535 serious?!?