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Holiday Inn (Special Edition)

Bing Crosby (Actor), Fred Astaire (Actor), Mark Sandrich (Director, Producer) Rated:

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Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way into your heart in the sensational musical comedy Holiday Inn. Nominated for 3 Academy Awards, this special edition features 13 holiday songs by famed composer Irving Berlin, including "White Christmas" - one of the biggest-selling recordings in music history! Crosby plays a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to run an inn that is open only on holidays. Astaire plays his former partner and rival in love. Follow the two talented pals as they find themselves competing for the affections of the same lovely lady (Marjorie Reynolds). This classic features an all-new digitally remastered picture and never-before-seen bonus material. 'Tis the season for one of the most enjoyable films of all time!

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In 1942, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby teamed up at Der Bingle's Paramount Pictures for Holiday Inn, a black-and-white musical that proves more entertaining than Crosby's color semi-remake White Christmas in 1954. Astaire and Crosby play partner/rival song-and-dance men who compete for the hand of their performing partner, played by Virginia Dale. After Crosby loses, he moves to the Connecticut countryside where he creates a resort that is only open on holidays and puts on the shows with the help of Marjorie Reynolds. Dumped by Dale, Astaire makes a drunken arrival at the inn on New Year's Eve and dances with Reynolds. He decides she'll be his new partner, but doesn't remember what she looks like, setting off a frenzied search at every subsequent show while the once-bitten Crosby does his best to steer him off track. The theme gives Irving Berlin an excuse to craft or recycle a number of holiday-themed songs, such as (in the former category) "Washington's Birthday" or (in the latter) "Easter Parade." The most famous of the new material, of course, is "White Christmas," which became one of the bestselling songs of all time and the title song of Crosby's 1954 film. Astaire and Crosby also team up for "I'll Capture Her Heart," which playfully contrasts the stars' specialties, and Astaire's "It's So Easy to Dance with You" became one of the signature songs of his post-Ginger Rogers career. Astaire and Crosby teamed up again for Blue Skies in 1946. --David Horiuchi

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Special features

A Couple of Song and Dance Men

All-Singing, All Dancing

Audio Commentary with Film Historian Ken Barnes, including Archive Audio Comments from Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby and John Scott Trotter

Theatrical Trailer

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Actors: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel
Directors: Mark Sandrich
Writers: Claude Binyon
Producers: Mark Sandrich
Format: Black & White, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Special Edition, Subtitled, NTSC
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono)
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number of discs: 1
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Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: October 10, 2006
Run Time: 101 minutes
Average Customer Review: 1,672 customer reviews
ASIN: B000I0QL82
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,023 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #108 in Movies & TV > DVD > Musicals

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Buy the Blu-ray With Confidence!

Bygershwingreenon October 8, 2014

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Holiday Inn had never looked good on home video. There have been two different transfers to DVD (plus a colorized version), with the special edition version looking only marginally better. When I saw some screen captures supposedly taken from the Blu-ray on another website, I was very discouraged because they looked as grainy and fuzzy as the DVD. Maybe they used old captures by mistake, but rest assured that Holiday Inn looks fabulous in high definition. Gone is the grainy, fuzzy, grayish, flickery picture that made the film look ancient. In its place is a sharp, vibrant, clear, clean, and detailed picture! When black and white films are properly restored, they can be very beautiful--and Holiday Inn certainly is. The colorized version, however, does not look nearly as good. Artificial-looking desaturated color aside, this transfer was done a few years ago in high definition from the inferior print used for the previous DVD. Therefore, the picture isn't as clear and detailed, there is more grain, contrast is flatter, and flicker is definitely present in some scenes. More serious restoration was obviously performed for the black and white version, so it's definitely the one to watch. Buy the Blu-ray with confidence and enjoy this delightful movie!

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Delightful holiday musical comedy

ByBrent ButlerTOP 1000 REVIEWERVINE VOICEon August 21, 2017

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At the time this film was made, Bing Crosby had been head and shoulders the top male vocalist of the last 15 years running. Frank Sinatra was just starting to make his rise in the world of popular stars. By the same token, Fred Astaire was the king of dance, as Gene Kelley wouldn't start to make an impact for a few years hence. Therefore you had the top singer in the country, and the top dancer in film, both in the same musical.

Differing with what some others have said, I regard "Holiday Inn" to have a fairly complicated plot for a light musical comedy. There are at least four twists on the romances in the story, and Bing's attempts to keep Fred away from his new girl are convoluted and funny.

The movie introduced the song "White Christmas", which would be the top selling song in the world for decades thereafter. It is one of the most covered songs of all Christmas songs, and Bing's version is still the best performance.

There are a couple of other fairly memorable songs, and outside of Rogers and Hammerstein or Lerner and Lowe, that's a pretty good number. The rest of the songs are entertaining in their context, and that's all that's required. After all, there is only so much any songwriter can do in producing songs about Washington or Lincoln's birthdays! LOL

At Thanksgiving in the movie, there is a little joke that most people these days won't get. You see a cartoon turkey confused and staggering back and forth between November 20th and November 27th on a calendar. Before 1942 the President declared the date of the official Thanksgiving holiday each year, but they always proclaimed it to occur on the last Thursday in November. In 1939 President Roosevelt, under pressure from merchants, proclaimed it as the 4th Thursday in a year where November had five. This break with tradition was not universally popular, and for three years the United States was approximately evenly divided, with some states celebrating the holiday on the next to last Thursday of the month, and some on the last Thursday. The turkey cartoon is spoofing that situation. In December of 1941 Congress stepped in and set the holiday in law as the 4th Thursday of the month, as we have known it since. That gives merchants a few more shopping days between Thanksgiving and Christmas in years where November has five Thursdays.

You'll come to like all the characters, even Astaire's somewhat scurrilous character who for some reason is always falling for his friend's girls.

The plot has been well documented in myriad reviews and synopses, so I won't go through it again here. If you're familiar with romantic comedies, you've seen all the bases touched here many times.

If you can't stand classic older films, you may disagree, but I give this film a great recommendation as a fine holiday film for the family to watch together. Of course, the movie isn't particularly about Christmas, but gets credit as a Christmas movie because of the flagship song. You could just as well watch it as a 4th of July movie! LOL

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Happy Holidays

ByTodd7on June 1, 2017

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Holiday Inn (1942) on blu ray is a fantastic experience. With top-notch performances by a stellar cast, this film is classic, timeless, and nostalgic. Furthermore, it's a feel good movie. Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby bring tons of energy to the holidays, while the supporting cast complements their every move. And of course, this film features the iconic Christmas number, WHITE CHRISTMAS, sung by Crosby. The settings are top-notch, and depict a genuine holiday feel. One of the most nostalgic and definitive holiday films ever, Holiday Inn is sure to dazzle and delight for generations to come. As for the blu ray, the picture looks sharp, as well as the sound, the special features are very nice to have, and this release also features a colorized version. The colorized version is very nice, and done very well, but I prefer the original black and white release.

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! I have always been a "It's A Wonderful ...

ByJulie Limbaughon March 13, 2017

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SOOOOOOOOOOOOO good! I have always been a "It's A Wonderful Life" type and gravitated more towards Jimmy Stewart/Cary Grant. This was an amazing find! Can't believe I hadn't seen it before. Rented it from Amazon this past Christmas Eve and watched it with my 12 year old nephew (who pretty much hates everything I like right now), and we both really enjoyed it. It was a sweet movie, totally family appropriate and obviously enjoyable for all age groups!

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Surprised Me

ByOddsfishon January 2, 2016

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To be honest, I've always avoided Fred Astaire films, just assuming that I'd find them to be boring. I've never really liked the dance heavy musicals (i.e. An American in Paris), and the long dancing sequences of musicals that I do like (for instance, the "Vamp Dance" and "Broadway Melody Ballet" in Singing in the Rain) are typically my least favorite parts. We selected this as a holiday film that we'd never before watched, however, and I was surprised at how much I enjoyed it.

The plot is predictable and slight, I'll admit, with the dance and song sequences taking up most of the time. But the plot was satisfying, and the Berlin's songs and the Astaire and Reynolds dance sequences are a consistent pleasure. My one big caveat is that the black face sequence is profoundly disturbing in this day and age. The song with that scene is excellent, but it's a difficult one to watch. I know that when this film is broadcast on television, that scene is often omitted, and I expect that in future viewings of this film, I'll skip that scene myself.

On the whole, Holiday Inn was fun to watch, and I expect that I'll be more open to this type of musical in the future.