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Christmas in July (1940) | User Rating
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Running Time
1 hour, 7 minutes
Country USA
Studio Paramount
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Other Titles
• Christmas in July
• Das Große Los (1945)
• Weihnachten im Juli (1974)
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Genre: Romance, Comedy, Christmas, Police, Scams And Cons
Tagline: If you can't sleep at night, it isn't the coffee - it's the bunk!
Plot: In Preston Sturges' second film, CHRISTMAS IN JULY, a practical joke propels a hard-working New York couple into a financial and ideological fiasco that challenges the concepts of talent, destiny, and the value of validation. The simple yet soon-to-be-complicated plot sees two lovers sitting on the roof on a hot New York City night, arguing about money. The beautiful girl, Betty (Ellen Drew), attempts to sell her grumpy and hardscrabble fiancé Jimmy (Dick Powell) on the merits of a one-room apartment, when all the while he is desperately attempting to hear the radio, which promises to announce the $25,000 winner of a slogan contest for a local coffee company. The next day when a trio of prankster coworkers forge a telegraph telling him that he has won, Jimmy and Betty are swept into a changed world, one in which long-suffering struggles are validated and self-doubts are dispelled. Jimmy finds himself respected by his boss, placated by his peers, and the landscape of New York City is transformed from an obstacle course to a land of opportunity, only to be thrust back into bleak reality when the hoax is revealed.
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Dick Powell
The Bad and the Beautiful, 42nd Street, Murder, My Sweet | Ellen Drew
Isle of the Dead, Stars in My Crown, If I Were King | Raymond Walburn
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