☆ ☆ ☆ ½
Christmas
in July (1940) – P. Sturges
Compact early Preston Sturges effort
that actually has nothing wrong with it – it just isn’t a masterpiece like the
comedies he would make in the next few years.
Dick Powell (post-musicals, pre-noir) is an earnest but poor guy hoping
to win a slogan contest run by a big coffee company offering $25K as a price
(with inflation that’s $400K to you and me).
When the guys in his office send him a prank telegram telling him he’s
won, things spiral out of control from there (in true Sturges fashion). Good support from Ellen Drew as his gal,
Raymond Walburn as the coffee company boss, and, of course, Sturges regular
William Demarest in a bit part. At just
over an hour, you can’t lose.
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