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I objective discovered this gem from 1949 and am I cheerful. It has all the ingredients essential to gather a station in my Christmas movies Hall of Fame: an adorable diminutive boy who wants a yell residence his widowed mom can’t afford; Janet Leigh as the WWII widow struggling to provide for her son; Wendell Corey as the kind and decent man who wants to marry her; and Robert Mitchum, as the drifter on his procedure to California who changes everything. It has charm without being schmaltzy, humor without being too cutesie, and an ending that has you standing up to cheer. Commence stringing the popcorn and notion to examine this every Christmas season.
Holiday affair is never mentioned when the roster of Christmas cinema classics is read, which is poor because it’s actually a very noble movie. It would be unfair to compare this with It’s A Extraordinary Life which came out three years earlier, or even Miracle on 34th Street (two years before) . But the similarities in style and tone are there, this being a feel-good Christmas family movie made with intelligence. The studios must have realised they were on to a excellent thing.
Underneath the layer of seasonal schmaltz is a narrative with its roots in the then current obsession with psychoanalysis. The jilted fiancé makes references to subconscious desires of Janet Leigh’s character, and the whole yarn is based around a Freudian-Oedipus plot with the son taking the site of a plain father. But this is all (honest) under the surface of the epic of limited boy who Santa Claus forgot, whose Christmas is made special by a selfless eccentric played by Mitchum. Mitchum is an actor who could be popular in almost any character – his face gives so dinky away that he is often described as ‘laconic’, but it’s definite that here he is a qualified guy who is so impartial he even cuckolds terrible feeble Wendell Corey’s character in front of him rather than be deceitful. Corey’s character of `the other man’ is so doomed from the launch to be a awful runner up to Mitchum that it must have been a thankless role for him, but he tackles it well. Study out too for future M*A*S*H* star Harry Morgan (credited as Henry Morgan) who steals one diminutive scene as a bemused police lieutenant. If you want a change from Frank Capra or James Bond, try this with your turkey and Brussels sprouts.
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