Christmas Holiday

Christmas Holiday is a 1944 drama directed by Robert Siodmak. The black-and-white film noir is based on a novel by W. Somerset Maugham. The adapted screenplay was written by Herman J. Mankiewicz. Gene Kelly and Deanna Durbin are cast against type in this dark film noir. Kelly, who went on to appear in bright musicals, plays a non-singing and non-dancing murderous man while Durbin, who usually played girl next door in family musicals, plays a who falls for him and sticks with him even knowing he's a killer. The film is considered one of the bleakest film noirs of the 1940s.

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1944 - Robert Siodmak - Black-and-white - Film noir - W. Somerset Maugham - Herman J. Mankiewicz

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