After watching Scrooged, I decided to watch another Christmas film, not so much in terms of comedy but more of a romantic comedy like a good chunk of Christmas films are when it comes to the theme. Holiday Affair I kind of took maybe on a different perspective more like I read the plot of the movie much differently then, until I re-read the plot again. Mainly visioned this movie was about a married woman having to choose between a boring man and a ne'er do well kind of guy. Unfortunately when re-reading the plot it's more about a widow who must choose between these good looking men, which really was a bit of a bummer for me personally especially since this is a classic film in the late forties. But then again I somewhat have to watch because I got nothing better to do so, Holiday Affair became my next movie after Scrooged.
Charming seasonal clerk Steve Mason (Robert Mitchum) catches beautiful Connie Ennis (Janet Leigh) in a fraudulent shopping scheme during the busy Christmas rush. But when he discovers that Connie is a war widow and single mother, Mason takes pity on her and can't bring himself to turn her in. His supervisor takes notice and fires him on the spot. Mason befriends Connie and her younger son, Timmy (Gordon Gebert), and may complicate her plans to marry boring nice guy Carl Davis (Wendell Corey).
The interesting thing I've learned about the movie itself is that this was Robert Mitchum's very first romantic comedy in his career in film, and mainly he was remembered more as this guy who portrait a lot of tough guy roles from all of his film noir pictures and westerns he starred in as well as War films in the 40's era, and Holiday Affair became that one film that really challenged him to do something unique in terms of acting in a romantic comedy. The film itself has that decent pleasantness in terms of being that one Romantic comedy set on Christmas time. And really I have nothing against the movie in fact I thought this was a decent movie to watch on the month of Christmas, I guess in fairness I was going off watch another movie after Scrooged, though deep down this is a typical chick flick where it always has to be the typical woman choosing over two men for which you as a viewer feels like you've seen that same story all over again. But the other thing to look at when it comes to this film alone is really, you'd never see Robert Mitchum perform in a different and unexpected film you'd never thought he would ever do, and through out a good chunk of his career he was always portrait as the antihero roles and film noir appearances so, really this was in interesting thing to look at a guy like Robert Mitchum and see him bond with a little boy as well as fall in love with Janet Leigh. Now if you're a fan of Romantic Comedies than this would be a go to Christmas film to watch this year, moreover I would highly recommend watching this film to anyone who's a big fan of Mitchum's films and like to see a much different light than what Robert Mitchum's was usually in, instead of the typical film noir or westerns. So, there's no doubt I'll watch this movie on Christmas Day with my Mom and Dad, more of an experiment and a second viewing as well.
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