Die Hard

Greatest Christmas movie or do people have other choices?

The Shop Around the Corner

The best/saddest one I can't think of the title, but I'll look for it. 

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Since Christmas is only a tangential plot element, I don't consider Die Hard a Christmas movie, though it's a great film.

It's a Wonderful Life still works after all these years. And yes, A Charlie Brown Christmas, with that fun piano score.

"All Mine To Give" is the one I was trying to remember.

A sad story with a sad ending, five or six children having to find homes after dad died from logging accident, then mom dies of illness.  I'll never forget the ending, the oldest (?) brother toting his younger siblings by sled, in the snow to find homes willing to take them in.  The kids were all so brave.  I tear up just thinking about it.  One of those shown on Turner Classic Movies which my evil cable company/subscription no longer carries.

Another, more criminal theme, was "Kind Lady", starting Ethyl Barrymore.  Old lady who always remembered postman, others, etc. at Christmas.  Some evil people who knew she was wealthy fooled her into thinking they would look out for her, almost did her in.

Also, "3 Godfathers".  John Wayne, others, about three outlaws who risk their lives to save a baby who's mother died in a covered wagon out in the desert, or wilderness, somewhere in the West, something like that...1930s movie?

I guess I'm into the sad ones.  But I like "Wonderful Life" and "Christmas Story" as well.

Candy

I don't know how the plot of that movie goes, but given the mood of the times as well as the regulations Hollywood labored under, I would except a kind of sappy story with a happy ending.

Here's how the story should go.

Three outlaws find a baby along with its dead mother in a covered wagon. They initially are going to just leave it to die, but their leader says they should take it with them and try to sell it in a nearby town. Utterly ignorant of how to take care of a baby, they feed it beef jerky and beans, and when it won't stop crying, whiskey.

It's several days' ride to the nearest town, and by the time they get there, their nerves are completely frayed. Things get worse when they can't find anyone who will take the baby at all, let alone buy it, even though they reduce their asking price from $100 to fifty cents. They're also worried that the baby's constant squalling will attract unwanted attention, especially since their names are on wanted posters.

This fear proves to be well-founded when the town sheriff figures out who they are and arrests them. With little choice in the matter, he takes the baby home to his wife; their children are all grown so initially, they're happy with the arrangement. That happiness fades when the baby proves to be a raging alcoholic who won't shut up unless fed whiskey. Compounding their dismay, the child's first words are "goddammit" and "varmint." In desperation, they use the reward money--the outlaws have been carried away to hang--to try to pay one of the townsfolk to take the baby. No takers, as by this time, everyone knows what they'd be getting. We segue forward five years; the boy, who has been named Jack, drinks whiskey copiously, chews and spits tobacco, and "cusses up a blue streak." The town's and his adoptive parents' patience runs out when he tries to shoot the schoolmarm, though fortunately missing because as usual, he's drunk. He ends up stealing a horse and rides off into the sunset.

Fast forward twenty years, he's a famous train robber. He gets tired of that life, though, and uses his accumulated plunder to buy a US Senate seat. He dies at the age of 87, with three wives and several mistresses.

Thus, "The Story of Whiskey Jack."

wow. Just wow...

  Greatest Christmas show ever - and you are too blind to see it.

My wife's favorite is Christmas Story and mine is It's a Wonderful Life.  

Hope you are having a nice Christmas,  Candy.