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Film · Paramount · 1942

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Holiday Inn

31Leave it.

White Christmas starts here, beside a Lincoln number done in blackface.

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The review

Two song-and-dance men and a woman. One of them opens an inn that performs only on holidays. Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire. The rivalry is the romance. White Christmas is introduced here, which is why December still puts this on. It had a large musical gross in 1942. I like the song. Liking the song is not the same as clearing the picture.

A Lincoln's Birthday number is done in blackface. That number is not a footnote. I won't stretch it into a lecture, and I won't skip past it either. If you want the song, hear the song without calling the holiday slate clean. I wouldn't leave this on for children as seasonal wallpaper. Tell the room what the Lincoln number is, or find another road to White Christmas.

Journal

Keep Holiday Inn in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 31. Yours can differ.

The glance

Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Is a marriage, a parent, or a child a real life here, or just a prop?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

The Greatest Showman

40 instead of 31

The Greatest Showman is still a musical film, and it scores 40 instead of 31. What you gain is courage: The performers walk into a room that came to gawk, and stay standing.

The eight

6
Industry
One of them opens an inn, and the holiday shows are the work.
3
Household
The romance is a rivalry, not a marriage or a child in a house.
2
Piety
A Lincoln's Birthday number is done in blackface, and no one stops it.
3
Courage
The inn is a bet on holidays, not a loss taken for somebody else.
2
Republic
Lincoln's Birthday is staged in blackface, a public day misused.
3
Temperance
The film keeps adding holiday numbers, blackface included.
3
Truth
White Christmas begins here, in a film that also plays blackface.
3
Stewardship
People kept the song; the blackface number was in the same picture.

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Film · Prime Video · 2026

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Buddy

31Leave it.

A mascot is not a companion. Wait for a story before you clear a Saturday.

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The review

The poster is a face designed to be kept. Films like this sometimes hide a real loneliness under the plush, and sometimes they are only the plush. The desk cannot see which from the tile, and will not invent a lesson the marketing department did not bother to print.

If you play it, watch the adult in the frame. A story where a creature teaches a man to stay is worth a conversation. A story where the toy is the point is an advertisement. You do not owe an advertisement your evening.

Journal

Keep Buddy in the record.

No house has filed a sentence for this yet.

Live Historic number 41. Yours can differ.

The glance

Industry and Household and Piety and Courage and Republic and Temperance and Truth and Stewardship are the thin ones.

Does anyone here do a real job, and does that job matter?

This phone is set for a grown person, just me. Change the ages.

Consider this

Cars 2

39 instead of 31

Cars 2 is still a comedy film, and it scores 39 instead of 31. What you gain is truth: He admits he was ashamed.