Christmas in July
If you can't sleep at night, it isn't the coffee - it's the bunk!
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DVD Details
- Run Time: 1 hours, 8 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 10, 2011
- Originally Released: 1940
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Dick Powell & Ellen Drew | |
Performer: | Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Ernest Truex, Al Bridge, Alexander Carr, Franklin Pangborn, Harry Hayden & Rod Cameron | |
Directed by | Preston Sturges | |
Edited by | Ellsworth Hoagland | |
Screenwriting by | Preston Sturges | |
Composition by | Sigmund Krumgold | |
Produced by | Paul Jones | |
Director of Photography: | Victor Milner |
Entertainment Reviews:
A mildly diverting programmer, Christmas in July lacks both the overall spontaneity and entertainment impress of Sturges' first picture.
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Variety
Rating: 5/5 --
As a creator of rich and human comedy Mr. Sturges is closing fast on the heels of Frank Capra.
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New York Times
Produced for a paltry $325,000, it once again gives the lie to the arbitrary Hollywood assumption that a film's quality is in direct proportion to its cost.
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TIME Magazine
Rating: 4/4 --
It's a small gem, almost too short to mention (67 minutes), but glitteringly perfect nonetheless.
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Combustible Celluloid
Rating: 3/4 --
A breeze to watch, and Sturges packs the brief running time with plenty of his trademark wit, skewering corporate vanity and overconfident male bluster in equal measure.
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From the Front Row
Preston Sturges's second feature as writer-director (1940, 66 min.) is in many ways the most underrated of his movies -- a riotous comedy-satire about capitalism that bites so deep it hurts.
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Chicago Reader
Rating: 3.5/4 --
A delightful effort worth watching on Christmas Day, Independence Day, and even Arbor Day.
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Film Frenzy
Product Description:
In Preston Sturges' second film, CHRISTMAS IN JULY, a practical joke propels a hard-working New York couple into a financial and ideological fiasco that challenges the concepts of talent, destiny, and the value of validation. The simple yet soon-to-be-complicated plot sees two lovers sitting on the roof on a hot New York City night, arguing about money. The beautiful girl, Betty (Ellen Drew), attempts to sell her grumpy and hardscrabble fiancé Jimmy (Dick Powell) on the merits of a one-room apartment, when all the while he is desperately attempting to hear the radio, which promises to announce the $25,000 winner of a slogan contest for a local coffee company. The next day when a trio of prankster coworkers forge a telegraph telling him that he has won, Jimmy and Betty are swept into a changed world, one in which long-suffering struggles are validated and self-doubts are dispelled. Jimmy finds himself respected by his boss, placated by his peers, and the landscape of New York City is transformed from an obstacle course to a land of opportunity, only to be thrust back into bleak reality when the hoax is revealed.
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- Sales Rank: 26,923
- UPC: 025192100512
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