Rating: NR
Genre:
Comedy
Release Date: 10/10/2006
SubTitles: English/Espanol/French
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDM2.0
Run Time: 101 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Children
Distributor/Studio: Universal Studios
Bing Crosby and
Fred Astaire star in
Holiday Inn as a popular nightclub song-and-dance team. When his heart is broken by his girlfriend, Crosby decides to retire from the hustle-bustle of big city showbiz. He purchases a rustic New England farm and converts it to an inn, which he opens to the public (floor show and all) only on holidays. This barely logical plot device allows ample space for a steady flow of
Irving Berlin holiday songs (including an incredible blackface number in honor of
Lincoln's Birthday). Oddly enough, the most memorable song in the bunch, the Oscar-winning
White Christmas, is not offered as a production number but as a simple ballad sung by
Crosby to an audience of one: leading lady
Marjorie Reynolds.
Fred Astaire's best moment is his Fourth of July firecracker dance. Ah, but what about the plot? Well, it seems that
Astaire wants to make a film about
Crosby's inn, starring their mutual discovery
Reynolds.
Bing briefly loses
Reynolds to
Astaire, but wins her back during the filming of a musical number on a Hollywood soundstage (eleven years earlier,
Bing enjoyed a final clinch with
Marion Davies under surprisingly similar conditions in
Going Hollywood). As with most of
Irving Berlin's "portfolio" musicals of the 1940s, the song highlights of
Holiday Inn are too numerous to mention. This delightful film is far superior to its unofficial 1954 remake,
White Christmas.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
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