TITLE...........: Christmas Holiday (1944)
STARS...........: Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Richard Whorf
DIRECTOR........: Robert Siodmak
WRITERS.........: Herman J. Mankiewicz, William Somerset Maugham (novel)
GENRE...........: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
IMDB............: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036711
RUNTIME.........: 1h 32mn
SIZE............: 3.91 GB
VIDEO CODEC.....: HEVC ([email protected])
BITRATE.........: 5835 Kbps (CRF)
RESOLUTION......: 1442x1080 (Upscaled)
ASPECT RATIO....: 1.33:1
FRAMERATE.......: 23.976 fps
AUDIO...........: English AAC 2.0 230kbps
SUBTITLES.......: ENG, FRE, SPA
SOURCE..........: DVD
ENCODE DATE.....: 2023-01-23


Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Abigail Martin marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette. Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability, and soon drags Abigail into a life of misery. An astonishing change of pace from Deanna Durbin's usual lightweight musical fare, Christmas Holiday (based, believe it or not, on a story by W. Somerset Maugham) is one of the bleakest film noirs of the 1940s. Durbin is merely adequate in her role, but Gene Kelly gives a disturbingly convincing portrayal as a man virtually devoured by his inner demons. Robert Siodmak directs with his usual flair, using a taut, suspenseful screenplay by Herman J. Mankiewicz