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Gift of the Magi [VHS]

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This video is an adaptation of the O'Henry story in which a poor married couple have two prized posessions, the husband's (Joel) attractive heirloom watch and the wife's (Minna) uncut hair. At Christmas, neither has the money to buy what they think their partner deserves, so Minna sells her hair to buy a watch chain for her husband and Joel sells his watch so he can get Minna combs for her hair. The music is interesting to listen to and the singing is difficult but well done. The production is well done with excellent camera work. On the other hand, the basic plot is well presented but the complications of a number of added characters and recurrent figures will no real role in the action seems an unnecessary elaboration. The change of scene from a low class NY apartment to a town in Finland is okay but does change the flavor from the original story. There is a brooding quality about the whole production that seems to impart a strange quality to what is essentially a simple story. I found this interesting but not a video I will watch frequently. Perhaps it conveys the spirit of Christmas and Christmas giving but this is not obvious.

was looking for a movie, of the same thing
but in english,, we saw it once and thought this was it,

we found the right one it was called the Gift of love
with marie osmand, the gife of Love and Gift of magi
are the same story and the gift of Love is the english one

was a great story we saw it a few yrears back and ordered one for ourself BUT!!!!! it was a in subtitles we sent it back still looking for the one in english