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Summary: FAIR, BUT NOT REALLY A CLASSIC(VCI EDITION)
Review: I was hoping to see a obscure "It's a Wonderful Life," type movie, but this movie is just o.k.. The image and sound is pretty good. There is one scene that is really well done, that is, when one of the characters confronts the fact that he going to Hell. To sum up, this really is not Christmas classic though the print is pretty good.
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Summary: Ghost Story...
Review: Jean Lawrence (Jean Parker of Little Women) and Jimmy Houston (Richard Carlson) are two young lovers who meet and are helped along by three older gentlemen. When the three gents are killed in a plane crash, they return to their home in order to fulfill their unearthly destinies. Jimmy drifts away from Jean after becoming the latest singing sensation. He goes off with a young starlet whose jealous, gun-toting ex-husband is hot on their trail! Can the trio of ghostly friends intervene before it's too late? To complicate matters, two of the three are called to their final rewards, leaving only one spirit to assist the young couple! BEYOND TOMORROW also stars Maria Ouspenskaya (The Wolfman) as a russian woman with a heart of gold. A good old-fashioned story from a far less cynical time. Well worth owning...
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Summary: Sentimental story that starts out on Christmas Eve...
Review: This is a little-known black and white movie that is, in many ways, a treasure. The story begins on Christmas Eve in a large city (NYC, I believe), with three elderly gentlemen business partners who prepare to spend Christmas Eve together. Alas...at the last minute the invited guests cancel. The three elderly men make a bet -- they take three gift wallets, placing a business card and $10 in each of them, and they toss the wallets out onto the street...just to see if anyone will return the wallet.Needless to say, from this humble beginning two kind souls return the wallets, friendships are built, and even romance ensues. The part I think is most interesting about the movie though, is that the story really does go "Beyond Tomorrow," following the elderly gentlemen and their opinions, interests, and concerns for their new friends, even beyond the grave -- in an uplifting way. This is an extremely enjoyable movie. I encourage you to give it a look, especially if you are tired of watching the same line-up of Christmas specials and movies. Top-notch holiday entertainment, though not quite in the same class as "It's a Wonderful Life" or "A Miracle on 34th Street"...both better known 5-star offerings. Merry Christmas! Alan Holyoak
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Summary: Sentimental story that starts out on Christmas Eve...
Review: This is a little-known black and white movie that is, in many ways, a treasure. The story begins on Christmas Eve in a large city (NYC, I believe), with three elderly gentlemen business partners who prepare to spend Christmas Eve together. Alas...at the last minute the invited guests cancel. The three elderly men make a bet -- they take three gift wallets, placing a business card and $10 in each of them, and they toss the wallets out onto the street...just to see if anyone will return the wallet. Needless to say, from this humble beginning two kind souls return the wallets, friendships are built, and even romance ensues. The part I think is most interesting about the movie though, is that the story really does go "Beyond Tomorrow," following the elderly gentlemen and their opinions, interests, and concerns for their new friends, even beyond the grave -- in an uplifting way. This is an extremely enjoyable movie. I encourage you to give it a look, especially if you are tired of watching the same line-up of Christmas specials and movies. Top-notch holiday entertainment, though not quite in the same class as "It's a Wonderful Life" or "A Miracle on 34th Street"...both better known 5-star offerings. Merry Christmas! Alan Holyoak
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Summary: Moral and funny at the same time
Review: Three old gentlemen, rich and engulfed in industrial adventures, come to their last Christmas. One of them engages the others into some social caper : to invite for their Christmas dinner and subsequent follow-up events the people who will bring back the billfolds containing ten dollars that they throw in the street. It is of course two rather poor and solitary people, a young man and a young woman, who do this whereas the third billfold is carelessly thrown away by a rich girl. Dishonesty is not the main quality of this selfish girl. Of course the young woman and the young man fall in love, but the young man is a singer and he gets into business rather fast and thus gets involved with a female star who is a shark and a vulture looking for men she can eat alive and raw. The young man falls into the trap. During that time the three old men meet with some mishap in a blizzard and they come back as ghosts, waiting for their being called on the road to some eternal fate. But one of them will look after the dramatically trapped young man and will eventually get his salvation, after him being killed by the previous husband of the cannibal star, and all will end well that started well and turned sour in the middle. Dr Jacques COULARDEAU
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