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White Christmas

3 out of 5 stars
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Time Out says

‘Aww, can’t you convince him to let us work for half salary?’ Such drippy and frankly wrong-headed sentiments can only mean one thing: Christmas is upon us. Paramount’s first film in (lavender-hued) VistaVision was this pornographically soppy but, nonetheless, hearty and humorous 1954 festive romp in which Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye take their astonishingly popular two-man lounge-comedy-dance revue to rural Vermont. It’s a standard putting-on-a-show movie with swinging tunes (courtesy of Irving Berlin), harmless misogyny, and a nice line in bitching at Rogers and Hammerstein’s expense. It’s as sickly-sweet as an eggnog tsunami, but Bing’s brandy-butter baritone and Kaye’s incessant, proto-Jim Carrey clowning always manage to raise a smile. Eagle-eyed viewers might also be able to spot a US army recruitment video spliced into the final song and dance routine.

Release Details

  • Rated:U
  • Release date:Wednesday 17 December 2008
  • Duration:120 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Michael Curtiz
  • Screenwriter:Norman Krasna, Melvin Frank, Norman Panama
  • Cast:
    • Bing Crosby
    • Danny Kaye
    • Rosemary Clooney
    • Vera Ellen
    • Dean Jagger
    • Mary Wickes
    • John Brascia
    • Anne Whitfield
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