The Review: Holiday Affair

Holiday Affair 8/10

Been watching so many holiday movies during this time I have made a new tag for them. Click on Holiday Reviews to see movies I have done over the years around Christmas to check them out. The next movie that we watch was one from 1949 called Holiday Affair. This lady named Connie heads into this department store that is overrun with children. This guy named Steve is working there and she rushes up to him and wants to buy a train set and doesn't ask anything about it. It turns out that she is something that was called a comparative shopper which I don't think exist anymore and if it does it probably has a different title. She gets a train and heads home while her son Timmy is there. Timmy is one of the messiest characters you will find in cinema. He ends up sneaking into the room and seeing the train set and getting super excited thinking it's for him. It's not. She buys the stuff and then has to return it. She's just getting prices for items and comparing them to her bosses shops. She heads back to the store to get a refund and the guy working there Steve is like I know who you are and what you're doing but he decides to not report her which would make her lose her job. In turn Steve loses his job.

They end up going out to lunch at Central Park and he helps her do some shopping but she ends up mashed onto a bus and he ends up not being able to get on. He winds up back to her house to return the items and waiting there is her boyfriend Carl. Carl wants to marry her but she's not sure yet because she doesn't seem to be completely over to death of her previous husband. Connie and Carl end up getting into a disagreement because Carl tries to discipline Timmy (which he needs.) She's pretty much full on “don't treat MY son that way.” So he leaves and Christmas morning there's another damn train set and it turns out that Steve ended up buying it for the little boy. Carl is like “huh that's pretty damn weird.” Connie tries to pay Steve back for the train but he doesn't want it and he says that he wants to head to California to build boats and he plans on leaving. She also lets you him that she plans on marrying Carl. Steve I guess from the way the poster looks and the way the movie was described it's supposed to be a scoundrel of sorts but he's really not. He seems to be an okay guy and Carl seems to be an okay guy but Connie seems to be super flighty. Like she's going along with these big things but she's making the decisions in a rushed weird way.

Later on in the film the police show up and they head downtown because Steve has been arrested it's a whole series of weird-ass events where it looks like he mugged somebody. They end up having dinner together with Connie, Steve, Carl, Timmy, and her dead husband's parents. The mother keeps on bringing up the dead husband and Steve stands up and pretty much proposes that Connie should be with him. I like that Carl didn't freak out and challenge him to a fight or anything and Steve ends up leaving. There's some more back and forth between these people and the son just giving out all of the information. Like no matter what this boy was going to tell the full story of behind the scenes things that little kid shouldn't be hearing let alone sharing with strangers. They thought Timmy was missing but he was returning the train so that Steve could have the money back. Connie ends up with Steve and Carl is kind of like well I hope I find somebody you know that loves me.

I'm not sure what life for her is going to be like after this movie ended. Carl was nice. Carl was successful. Carl cared about her and her family and could provide for them. Steve was saving random money to go build boats in California. Steve is the dude you would have fun with and have your son call uncle but never father. This was a good movie though. There was no fist fights or anything like that but I just thought it was funny that Connie seemed to be the main problem in this. I have a feeling that her and Steve stay together maybe for three months until she gets tired of him not being able to support her or her son.

Robert Mitchum as Steve Mason

Janet Leigh as Connie Ennis

Wendell Corey as Carl Davis

Gordon Gebert as Timmy Ennis

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