I'm showing this tonight, Christmas Eve, along with "A Charlie Brown Christmas", "The Little Drummer Boy", and Judy Garland singing "Silent Night" to a movie group at my apartment complex.
Am I the only one to consider this appropriate for Christmas Eve?
Have yourselves a Merry Little Christmas! Ho! Ho! Ho!
A friend had this on a list of favorite Christmas movies. I had never heard of it until this morning, and I'm a big Duke fan.
I'll check it out and comment again about it's Christmas movie worthiness.
Merry Christmas!
"Leave the gun, take the cannoli."
It's on my list of "must watch" movies each Christmas.
Besides it's Nativity story line it has personal significance for me.
As a young kid I used to watch it every Christmas Eve with my Dad. Seems local TV programming during the 50's and 60's in New York thought it appropriate and had it on each year. Late night, we'd have just gotten home from the Christmas Eve party at my Aunt's and he'd let me stay up late with him to watch 3 Godfathers.
A special Christmas memory for me, and one I now make tradition.
~LjM
Put your pants on, Spartacus!
For what it is worth, this has a prominent place in my Christmas movie collection. I think it's very appropriate to show on Christmas Eve.
shareNope, its a great Christmas movie!
shareI've only seen this film once, when it was broadcast on TV 20 or 30 years ago. But when I saw it, I thought it would make a good Christmas film. I don't own it, and I've never seen it listed on TV at around Christmas time. But I usually think of it at Christmas time when I pull out some of my Christmas oriented films. If I did own it, I would show it then. It's on my wish list to get, partly for that reason.
shareThis film was shown every Christmas on broadcast TV in the Philadelphia area. You can now alternate it with Hell's Heroes(1929) and Three Godfathers(1936) as they have had their DVD release this year. Although all websites show Hell's Heroes as a 1930 release, according to Great Christmas Movies (by) Frank Thompson, it was given a December 27th, 1929 release in New York.
shareI first saw this movie in the late fifties in St. Louis at Christmas time. A few years it was broadcast on TCM on Christmas Eve. It's one of my favorite Christmas movies.
shareDon't know when I first saw this on TV, as soon as it came out on DVD I bought it, and watch it every Christmas Eve
Mongo like candy!
Does anyone know of any other Christmas themed westerns?
shareI personally have considered this a Christmas movie for sure, but that being said-most John Wayne/Ford movies are part of my Christmas repertoire, because it is the one time of year that brings me back to my childhood, the old traditions, a simpler world and a country that was altogether more family oriented. Westerns are a big part of that, and so was the Duke.
shareI watched it last Christmas and loved it
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