Bride Shopping at Christmas
Rick Retro’s Realm, Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – Two holiday classics bookend World War Two, and both involve eligible bachelors.
Project #4: 2025 Christmas Tour – Two holiday classics bookend World War Two, and both involve eligible bachelors.
As our 2025 Christmas Tour takes us into the 1940’s, yesterday we visited The Shop Around the Corner. Set in a Budapest, Hungary, leathergoods shop, it’s a crowd-pleasing romantic dramedy that ignored the cloud of War that had already descended on Europe. A safe decision in the 1940 holiday season with the United States not yet officially participating in the Second World War. James Stewart is the eligible bachelor, an ambitious young salesman working at the shop.
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) — Actually it’s in Budapest, but it’s as cozy as it sounds.
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Family Suitability
+ ✅2️⃣ OK for teens and adults. (Grades 7+) | Approved
Alignment with Judeo-Christian Values
+ ❎1️⃣ Fair/Slightly Favorable
The next stop on our tour finds us back in the States, near the end of World War Two. In fact, it was released during the three months between victory in Europe and victory in Japan. A romantic comedy of the screwball comedy genre, this film didn’t ignore the combat, giving us an ever so short glimpse of a “You sunk my battleship!” moment. But it quickly leaves the war far behind, giving us a returning war hero as the eligible bachelor. Delivering escapist romance and the wacky situations that screwball comedy is known to bring, was just the right recipe for war-weary audiences.
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945) — A solid screwball romcom delivers clever Christmas comedy in the Constitution State.
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Family Suitability
+ ✅1️⃣ Mostly OK for teens and adults. (Grades 10+, ⚠️ Might be considered inappropriate for sensitive teens and adults.) | Approved
Alignment with Judeo-Christian Values
+ ⚠️0️⃣ Tolerable (Not in alignment with Judeo-Christian values, but focuses more on entertaining, not on advocating its viewpoint or pushing an agenda.)
Up next, a short story and the classic film it inspired.
Don't forget the popcorn!
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