Reviews

I saw this film when it first came out and it has stuck in my head since. I have never seen it on tv or in a video store, although I am sure it must have been on and I just missed it. The scenery is great. Marie France Pisier is absolutely gorgeous. John Beck plays a total bast*rd, very convincingly. I have never been a great fan of Susan Sarandon. Her role could have been played better by someone else. If this were remade today, maybe Gwyneth Paltrow? The abortion in the bathtub scene was so over the top at that time. The wardrobe is elegant and totally fabulous. However in one scene, Marie-France Pisier is decending a fabulous staircase, decked out in a very glamourous brown and earthtone pants outfit. Why is she wearing the same black, torn up platform shoes she wore in her earlier scenes when she was a struggling model?

Curl up on the sofa and break out the Kleenex.

If for no other reason, the movie is memorable for the great vocals by Gogi Grant. It has its inconsistencies, such as Helen Morgan wears the same 5 inch stillettos throughout the movie. Were they even available in the 1930s? Go past that and this makes a great tearjerker, or a "rainy-day stay in the house and curl up on the couch" movie. Today, I'd say it would be reated PG-14.

Watching White Christmas tonight and besides the cheap sets, bad acting and shmaltzy dialog, this movie is riddled with inconsistancies.

When the 4 main characters board the train to NY, they are on an old 1920s style train car. During the trip, they show a train racing along, in the Orange and Yellow Santa FE (West Coast) colors. A minute or so later they show another train... Silver and blue, then they are seen getting off an old green Pullman car.

The girls are occupying the guys sleeper room and every available space on the train is taken... Why then, a few minutes later, are they sleeping in berths along the corridor?

When they arrive in Vermont, a red station wagon with a white roof pulls into the station, magically it becomes a tan colored, wood paneled wagon.

The movie ok okay, I guess... fantasy fluff... The best part of the movie is Barrie Chase with her lines... "Mutual, I'm sure" and the "Well I like that, not even a kiss my foot or have an apple" We roar with laughter every time she opens her mouth. When she dances off with the fat guy, the look on her face is priceless.

Mary Wickes is also wonderful in that movie, like everything else she does.

Bing Crosby...eeeeeew!!!

Danny Kaye...just there for a paycheck and the free buffet.

Vera Ellen and Rosemary Clooney... 2 men in dresses who were the inspiration for a thousand drag queens over the years.

Watching R. Clooneys acting made me wonder if she was doing a clinical study for Lithium or Prozac. She was truly awful. That black dress she wore in her "Love, you didn't do right by me" number was probably a true inspiration to John Waters in designing a dress for Divine.

Aside from that... It was a decent flick.