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With the Holidays, what are your favorite films for the season?.........

My, and my families, favorite is "Holiday Inn".   It is the film that introduced so many songs and has Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby.  The "made for money" remake of "White Christmas" was simply to capitalize on the popularity of the song to make more money....not a bad film, but "Holiday Inn" has the class that the remake does not.
  
What are some of your families favorite holiday movies?  My children loved the two original Home Alone films.  Fun, but not the musical history and "class" that Holiday Inn is. 

You may know of a motel chain that picked up on the name, "Holiday Inn".


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Them and The Exorcist....ah yes.  In my youth I would watch a local station that had "Creature Features" every Saturday night late.  I would sit up with my Father, eating bowls of cereal and watching all of the classics...the original Dracula and such. 

I exposed my sons to great films in their childhood...yes Disney, but also Citizen Kane, Casablanca,  To Have and Have Not,...and so very much more.  Since both of my sons work in the movie industry and related public TV...seeing those films seems to have been good for my children.
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HA...just saw THEM on "classic horror week" on TCM for the 1st time, great flick! 
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I know this is "AudiogoN", but if anyone would like to suggest very good sci-fi films, I would enjoy seeing what you like. Yes, Citizen Kane, Casablanca and all the "high-brow" films I enjoy and have seen, with my sons, many times....but sometimes something scary or, as John Denver used to say...."far out" can be fun.

What was the early one with James Arness ...was that "The Thing"?
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The original "The Thing" started Kurt Russell, a true classic. 
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I am not sure about the storyline behind the Kurt Russell film, but in the early fifties there was a film named "The Thing" with James Arness in the "lead" role. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Thing_from_Another_World

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