Holiday Inn / Going My Way – Classic Collectables
Holiday Inn:
In this Irving Berlin musical, Jim (Bing Crosby) and Lila are members of a
performing trio who plan to quit and run a country hotel. When Lila says she has
fallen in love with the dancer in the act, Ted (Fred Astaire), Jim leaves town
with a broken heart. After turning the inn into a holidays-only live
entertainment venue, Jim winds up booking – and falling for – Linda
(Marjorie Reynolds). But when Ted shows up at the place after being dumped by
Lila, he too sets his sights on beautiful Linda.
Going My Way:
Father Charles O'Malley (Bing Crosby) is an easy-going, golf-playing young
priest whose entry into a tough neighborhood parish in midtown Manhattan is
viewed with skepticism from all quarters, especially the aging Father Fitzgibbon
(Barry Fitzgerald). While dealing with some unfinished business from his former
life in the form of an old flame who now sings at the Metropolitan Opera (Rise
Stevens), Father O'Malley inspires the youth of his parish by forming a boys
choir.
Critic Reviews:
Holiday Inn
- " Between the toe twinkling and ivory tickling it's still a comfortable, cosy way to pass an afternoon. " – Angie Errigo
- " Crosby's easy, casual banter is just the right foil for Astaire's precision acrobatics, his wry, offbeat humor. " – TIME Magazine
- " Loaded with a wealth of songs, it's meaty, not too kaleidoscopic and yet closely knit for a compact 100 minutes of tiptop fil musical entertainment. " – Variety Staff
Going My Way
- " It is a slice of life, illuminated by those flashes of rich detail by which McCarey so often makes beauty out of the commonplace. " – SMH Staff
- " Paramount may have made a more appealing, more tenderly human and amusing picture than “Going My Way,” during its many years of film-making, but if so, I have missed it. " – Kate Cameron
- " It offers, in the performance of nutcracker-faced, 56-year-old Barry Fitzgerald, the finest, funniest and most touching portrayal of old age that has yet reached the screen. " – James Agee