Yep. Just as I suspected. The left eye is glass.
Depression era? Have these idiots even watched the movie?
Yep. Just as I suspected. The left eye is glass.
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!
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.
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.
Depression era? WTF?
Jean Shephard’s radio shows were played on Pacifica stations before they went full time Communist in the early 1970s.
The movie (my opinion) is poorly directed, low budget, the mom is miscast (what kinda 50s hairdo is that s’posed to be?), and only Shephard’s script, which as I recall is a riot in the radio version, saves it.
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He’s still cute.