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Christmas Eve (1947 film)

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Directed by
  
Edwin L. Marin

Music by
  
Heinz Roemheld

Initial release
  
31 October 1947

Box office
  
1 million USD

Producer
  
Benedict Bogeaus

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Produced by
  
Benedict Bogeaus

Cinematography
  
Gordon Avil

Director
  
Edwin L. Marin

Music director
  
Heinz Roemheld

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Written by
  
Story: Richard H. Landau Screenplay: Laurence Stallings

Starring
  
George Raft George Brent Randolph Scott

Cast
  
George Raft, Randolph Scott, George Brent

Similar
  
George Raft movies, Movies about adoption, Christmas Day movies

Christmas Eve is a 1947 United Artists comedy film directed by Edwin L. Marin. The movie is based on the story by Richard H. Landau and stars George Raft, George Brent and Randolph Scott. It was rereleased under the title "Sinner's Holiday".

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Plot

The greedy nephew Philip Hasting (Reginald Denny) of eccentric Matilda Reid (Ann Harding) seeks to have her judged incompetent so he can administer her wealth; In an informal meeting with her nephew, the doctor Dr. Doremus and the judge Alston they convene that she will be saved if her three long-lost adopted sons appear for a Christmas Eve reunion, as any of them is the one she could trust, but not her nephew. Later on it is revealed that nephew Philip did some very illegal things with her money, but she doesn't claim anything.

Separate stories reveal with the help of Private Detective Gimlet (Joe Sawyer) that

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  • Michael (George Brent) is a bankrupt playboy loved by loyal Ann Nelson (Joan Blondell);
  • Mario (George Raft) is a seemingly shady character tangling with a Nazi war criminal in South America and a beautiful lady, Jean Bradford (Dolores Moran);
  • Jonathan (Randolph Scott) is a hard-drinking rodeo rider who falls for a flirtatious woman Claire (Virginia Field) at the station, that reveals to be a police-woman in disguise chasing after an orphanage that doesn't seem to do right.

    • Finally the gathering at the Christmas Eve happened and the couple Johnatan-Claire bring the three girl orphans from the orphanage. Aunt Matilda feels like the day she got the three little boys for adoption.

    Cast


  • Ann Harding as Aunt Matilda Reed
  • Reginald Denny as Phillip Hastings
  • Clarence Kolb as Judge Alston
  • Carl Harbord as Dr. Doremus
  • Joe Sawyer as Private Detective Gimlet
  • George Raft as Mario Torio
  • George Brent as Michael Brooks
  • Randolph Scott as Jonathan ´Johnny´
  • Joan Blondell as Ann Nelson
  • Virginia Field as Claire
  • Dolores Moran as Jean Bradford
  • Douglass Dumbrille as Dr. Bunyan
  • Claire Whitney as Mrs. Bunyan
  • John Litel as Joe Bland, FBI Agent
  • Marie Blake as Reporter
  • Dennis Hoey as Williams-Butler
  • Molly Lamont as Harriet Rhodes
  • John Litel as Joe Bland, FBI Agent
  • Walter Sande as Mario's Hood
  • Konstantin Shayne as Gustav Reichman
  • Andrew Tombes as Auctioneer

    • Reception

    The film didn't receive very good reviews. Leonard Maltin gave it 1.5 stars out of 4. The film didn't do very well at the box office.

    References

    Christmas Eve (1947 film) Wikipedia
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