Christmas Holiday (1944)
- Directed by
- Felix Jackson, Robert Siodmak
- Genre
- drama film, film noir, Christmas film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 6.5 of 10 from 36 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A woman marries a charming but unstable man who becomes violent. After he is arrested, she flees his family and begins singing in a New Orleans club under a new name.
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What happens
Christmas Holiday is a 1944 American film noir crime film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly. Based on the 1939 novel of the same name by W. Somerset Maugham, the film is about a woman who marries a Southern aristocrat who inherited his family's streak of violence and instability and soon drags the woman into a life of misery. After he is arrested, the woman runs away from her husband's family, changes her name, and finds work as a singer in a New Orleans dive. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Musical Score for Hans J. Salter. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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