Posted on 12/21/2010 7:03:44 PM PST by Dallas59
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Depression era? Have these idiots even watched the movie?
Yep. Just as I suspected. The left eye is glass.
LOL..:>)
Yeah, I'm thinking late 50s.
Ralphie turned out okay, didn’t he?
Btw, it’s not mentioned in the story, but I read somewhere that Darren McGavin put up some of his own money to get the film made, as the studio just didn’t want to do a “realistic’ Christmas movie.
On a bit less upbeat note, the actor who played Flick (Scott Schwartz), aka the kid who got his tongue stuck on the flagpole, went into gay porn as an adult. Supposedly he’s trying to go “legit” now, but man...
BTW2. There was at least one semi-sequel to A Christmas Story. It was called “It Runs in the Family” and it was horrible! None of the original cast were in it. Charles Grodin replaced McGavin, Mary Steenburgen played the mom (can you just feel the leftist love?) and a couple of McCauley Culkin’s siblings played the kids. Bleah!
It looks to me most likely immediate post WWII.
Ovaltine dropped their sponsorship of the Little Orphan Annie radio show in 1940. 1939 would have been the last Christmas they ran ads on it.
40’s, check out the cars.
Fudge!
“...the kid who got his tongue stuck on the pole, went into gay porn as an adult.”
That makes sense.
I have loved this movie for years. I gave a copy of it to some next door neighbors for Christmas one year. I was not aware of the fact that they were serious moonbat libs. They were so horrified that I gave them a movie about a kid who wanted a gun, that they were never even civil to me again. he he! They soon moved, not because of me or the movie but I was really glad to see them go.
Boy howdy, I phrased that one poorly, didn’t I?
*facepalms self*
Bingo! The Parker's car was a 1937 Oldsmobile 6... The decoder that Ralphie got from the Little Orphan Annie radio show was a "Speedomatic" made of metal - the last year of production for the "Speedomatic" was 1940. After that, they went to paper decoders.
Regards,
Raven6
The Old Man’s car is a ‘37 Olds. The decoder pin is from ‘40. The Sammy Kaye song is from ‘41.
While the sequel is horrible (with a downright humiliating performance by the execrable Charles Grodin as the Old Man), it has two great vignettes from the Jean Shepherd stories: the Gravy Boat Wars, and when the Indiana property tax inspector comes to the neighborhood. It has been titled “It Runs In The Family” and also “My Summer Story.” Incredibly, Bob Clark directed it, too, proving the stars were just in the right alignment for the original.
The incidents in the movie originated with Jean Shepards monologues from a Sunday night talk show on New York Radio Station WOR in New York City. The events were inspired by his childhood in a working class neighborhood in Hammond Indiana. I believe that this was a steel mill town, and the time period was the late 30’s.
I’m pretty sure that’s the voice of Shepard himself narrating in the movie soundtrack.
As teenagers in the 1950’s I and some friends were faithful listeners of Shepard’s show . A funny thing about him was that Shepard was fired a couple of times by WOR for mocking certain commercials that the Station advertised during breaks. Beatniks saved his bacon by demonstrating on his behalf outside the radio station.
Jean Shepard managed to cash in in the 60’s when Playboy magazine wrote up some of the stories you now see in the movie “Christmas story”.
If Playboy or Hollywood owns any recordings from the old WOR shows, I’d be one buyer of any CD’s they released.
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