Rent Holiday Inn (1942)
3.5 of 5 from 104 ratings
1h 40min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Bing Crosby plays Jim Hardy, a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to open a Connecticut Inn. Fred Astaire plays Ted Hanover, Hardy's former partner and rival in love. And, of course there are girls (Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale), an agent (Walter Abel) and plenty of lavish song and dance routines with spectacular production numbers.
- Actors:
- Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel, Louise Beavers, Irving Bacon, Marek Windheim, James Bell, John Gallaudet, Shelby Bacon, Joan Arnold, Bob Crosby Orchestra, Edward Arnold Jr., Loretta Barnett, Muriel Barr, Harry Barris, Patsy Bedell, Leon Belasco, Brooks Benedict
- Directors:
- Mark Sandrich, Robert Allen
- Producers:
- Mark Sandrich
- Writers:
- Claude Binyon, Elmer Rice, Irving Berlin, Ben Holmes, Bert Lawrence, Zion Myers, Francis Swann
- Others:
- Robert Emmett Dolan
- Aka:
- Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn
- Studio:
- Universal Pictures
- Genres:
- Classics, Comedy, Drama, Music & Musicals, Romance
- Collections:
- All the Best: A Celebration of New Year Movies, All the Twos: 1902-62, Christmas Films, Films & TV by topic, Fred and Ginger: Duets and Solos, Holidays Film Collection, Spring On Screen: Films to Watch This Season, Thanksgiving and Film!, A Brief History of Film..., The Ultimate Christmas Films Collection, Top 10 Autumn Films, Top 10 Guest Houses On Film, Top Films
- Awards:
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 13/10/2014
- Run Time:
- 101 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing, French, Spanish
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- Colour and B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- "A Couple of Song and Dance Men": An intimate retrospective of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire featuring an interview with Ava Astaire-MacKenzie
- "All-Singing, All-Dancing": Experience the making of the unforgettable song and dance numbers
- "Colouring a Classic": Learn how the him was colour-designed using amazing technology that transformed the block and white classic to colour
- "Feature Commentary": With Film Historian Ken Barnes, including Archive Audio Comments from Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire and John Scott Trotter
- Theatrical Trailer
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 07/11/2022
- Run Time:
- 101 minutes
- Languages:
- English DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono
- Subtitles:
- Canadian French, English Hard of Hearing, Latin American Spanish
- DVD Regions:
- Region 0 (All)
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.33:1 / 4:3
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- A Couple of Song and Dance Men - An intimate retrospective of Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire featuring an interview with Ava Astaire-McKenzie
- All-Singing All-Dancing - Experience the making of the unforgettable song-and-dance numbers
- Reassessing "Abraham" - Film scholars and historians discuss the "Abraham" scene's origins and provide context for contemporary audiences
- Feature Commentary by film historian Ken Barnes including archival audio comments from Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and John Scott Trotter
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Reviews (1) of Holiday Inn
White Christmas, Black Mark - Holiday Inn review by griggs
I can see why people keep this in the rotation – Bing crooning, Fred doing witchcraft with his feet, “White Christmas” landing like an instant standard. But for a film that birthed the Christmas song, Holiday Inn isn’t all that Christmassy. It’s basically a year-round revue – New Year, Lincoln’s Birthday, Fourth of July – with Christmas just one of the stops.
Once you peel off the “inn that only opens on holidays” gimmick, the story’s wafer-thin: romantic musical chairs, reheated misunderstandings, and women mostly treated as prizes between numbers. Berlin’s score is much the same – a couple of gems, a lot of polite filler.
And then there’s the blackface Lincoln’s Birthday sequence. Not a throwaway gag, but a full song-and-dance number that slams the brakes on any cosy nostalgia. Interesting as a museum piece with a health warning, sure. As something I’d happily stick on every December? Not so much.
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