Favorite Holiday Films: Post a clip or trailer.

[CBHagman]

Happy holidays to all classic film fans, and in honor of the season, let's post favorite holiday movies. This is a very broad category, covering everything from biblical epics to musicals such as Meet Me in St. Louis to films with Christmas or New Year's Eve scenes to your standard roster of holiday favorites from TCM.

Here's one of my favorite scenes from Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner. It's Christmas Eve and there has been, shall we say, a lot of drama at Matuschek & Co. this year, including one near-tragedy, but this sequence, combining awkwardness, comedy and poignancy, brings things full circle.

[longship]

1. Well, there's The Twilight Zone, "The Night of the Meek"

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With Art Carney, at his best. A snippet, the opening:

Santa's drunken speech:

(And warning: ending spoiler):

And I've always loved the good humor of "A Miracle on 34th Street". No! Not the remake. Never the remake!

OMG! That's a horrible trailer! Do not click through!

Anyway, I tried out a couple of them. They're all the same lame trailer. Just see the damned flicked. It's a good one. Edmund Gwynn chews the scenery, as does Natalie Wood.

Here's a snippet, the best I could find quickly: