CHRISTMAS</br>Run Time: 367</br>Release Date: 11/3/2009</br>NR</br></br>Product Description</br></br><![CDATA[<p>TCM Greatest Classic Films: Holiday (4FE) (DVD)</p><p>A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938) Reginald Owen portrays Charles Dickens' holiday humbug Ebenezer Scrooge?? the miser's miser who has a huge change of heart after spirits whisk him into the past?? present and future. From sets to stars to story?? this triumphant adaptation adds a glow to the season. Like Tiny Tim's benediction?? it blesses us ? every one.  CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) A magazine columnist totally devoid of the homemaking skills espoused in her column had better get some fast: her boss has invited himself and a recently returned war hero to her home for Christmas. Laughs?? romance?? holiday cheer: that's the recipe Barbara Stanwyck and a stellar company follow in this perennial favorite.  IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE Home for the holidays! GI families hit by the post-World War II housing crunch take over an abandoned New York City mansion.  THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER In the thi"heir four screen pairings?? Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart engage in retail romance wrapped in the ribbon of director Ernst Lubitsch's trademark touch of wit and charm. They play bickering store clerks who are unknowingly secret pen pals. Your patronage will be cheerfully rewarded when you watch this enchanting tale.</p>]]></br></br>Amazon.com</br></br><b><i>Christmas in Connecticut</i></b><br> <I>Christmas in Connecticut</I> is a holiday film that plays 365 days of the year. Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant?? sardonic performance as Elizabeth Lane?? a columnist for <I>Smart Housekeeping</I> magazine?? whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as "ica's Best Cook." A writer?? she is; a cook?? she is not. As she types the words?? "m my living room window?? as I write?? the good cedar logs cracking on the fire..."he view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment. An able supporting cast keeps her lie on life support: her editor?? her stuffy and detestable architect suitor?? and the wonderful "cle" Felix (S.Z. Sakall) an English-garbling Hungarian chef who provides the recipes that fill her column. <p> Cut to Jefferson Jones a sailor adrift at sea for weeks after his destroyer is torpedoed. Memories of the food described in Lane's columns are central to his survival. After his rescue as he's recuperating in a naval hospital a marriage-minded nurse thinks she might nudge Jones to the altar if he could only experience a <I>real</I> domestic Christmas. And it just so happens that she was nurse to the grandchild of Alexander Yardley the wealthy and powerful publisher of --you guessed it--<I>Smart Housekeeping</I> magazine. And so she pens the letter that could unravel Lane's carefully constructed fraud. She writes to Yardley asking that Jones be included in America's ultimate Christmas--the one to be held at the Lane family farm in Connecticut. The pompous Yardley (ably portrayed by Sidney Greenstreet) believes the Lane myth and instantly sniffs a story that will send his magazine's circulation skyrocketing. And staring dow" a lonely holiday?? he decides to join the Lanes for Christmas on the farm?? too. Now?? all Lane has to do is come up with a farm. And a husband. And let's not forget the baby. <I>Christmas in Connecticut</I> is classic screwball entertainment of the best kind?? with its on-target skewering of social convention and house-of- cards-about-to-tumble tension: a perfect farcical vision of domestic blitz. <I>--Susan Benson</I> <br><br> <b><i>A Christmas Carol 1938</i></b><br> This is the desert-island choice of the many versions of <em>A Christmas Carol</em>?? with a magnificent?? full-bodied portrayal of Ebenezer Scrooge by Alastair Sim that leaves everyone else in the dust. Lean and direct?? this film's version of the story wastes no time trying to impress viewers with the magical nature of the spirits' visitations. Director Brian Desmond Hurst keeps the focus on Scrooge's life story?? beautifully simplifying and underscoring the theme of lost women with a haunting musical refrain from the folk song "Allen." Sim's commitment to