It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
- Directed by
- Roy Del Ruth
- Genre
- romantic comedy, Christmas film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 56m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 7.1 of 10 from 87 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 homeless man moves into a rich man's empty mansion for Christmas. He invites other homeless people to stay, and then the owner's family shows up too, not knowing who he is.
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What happens
It Happened on 5th Avenue (titled onscreen as It Happened on Fifth Avenue) is a 1947 American romantic comedy film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles, Victor Moore and Gale Storm. The film follows a clever vagrant as he helps several strangers take shelter in a vacant New York City mansion during the Christmas holidays, unwittingly inviting the mansion's owner and his family to stay with them. Herbert Clyde Lewis and Frederick Stephani were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Story, losing to Valentine Davies for another Christmas-themed film, Miracle on 34th Street. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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The Cheaters (1945)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.