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Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

Wonderful character development!

This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.

With a cast list containing Janet Leigh, Robert Mitchum and Wendell Corey you think this would be a crime thriller. It is a romantic comedy.Leigh is a widow with a young boy and works as a comparison shopper, regarded at the time to be a despicable profession.She meets Mitchum in a department store who works there as a toy salesman over the Christmas holidays to earn enough money so he can return to the west coast. He is selling toy trains but although he guesses she is a comparison shopper, he does not report her and gets fired for his non action.Wendell Corey is a lawyer who has been courting Leigh for years but she has never got over her husband and her boy does not seem to like Corey. However something stirs when she encounters Mitchum and they keep on meeting and he also purchases a train set that her son wants for Christmas.This is not a whimsical or sentimental film, the people feel real with real problems of the post years, poverty or bereavement or just trying to get the girl.Despite the cast, this is a low key film, where everybody is nice to each other. Corey does have the thankless role as the nice guy who has go up against Mitcham for the girl. At one point he even defends him in court. However Mitcham the drifter with a dream of building boats is the one who sizes up Leigh.

A heart felt story which perfectly blends romance, comedy and drama, Holiday Affair may have fallen off the radar in the annual surge of classic Christmas movies we are offered each December but by no means is it lesser in quality.Set in the midst of holiday chaos Connie Ennis spends her time supporting her son Timmy whilst holding back on marriage proposals from Carl, her long standing suitor. If that was not enough for Connie, she immediately set sparks flying with store clerk Steve which begins the rocky relationship they endure through out the film. So what does this situation have to do with Christmas? Holiday Affair serves to prove the festive season should be about happiness and dreams coming true for all.The quest for happiness in Holiday Affair is an emotionally complex web which applies to children and adults alike. From a children's point of view there is Timmy, full of the typical joy and wonder which surrounds children every Christmas. What he wants is the perfect present yet as Holiday Affair reaches its close, Timmy realises there are more important things than gifts. This is related and expanded further in the love triangle that commences between Connie, Carl and Steve. Still affected by the loss of her Husband during the War, Connie wants predictability in the form of Carl. Yet Steve makes Connie question the need for predictability, if she prefers happiness instead. It is a conundrum we can all relate to and Holiday Affair handles the concept with class and dignity.Of course Holiday Affair's class and dignity was partly due to the acting talent. Janet Leigh added a delightful energy as a loving Mother and partner whose sheer presence made it understandable why two men were competing for her love whilst equally proving herself to be a damaged soul in Holiday Affair's more dramatic scenes. Robert Mitchum, although outside his usual territory of moody film noirs and action features, certainly held his own as the genuine nice guy who made a huge impression on Connie, Timmy and this spectator alike. Finally there was Wendell Corey, whose brought some sympathy to his character desperately holding onto his relationship with Connie whilst engaging in a love rivalry with Steve which had many moments of comical conflict.To briefly conclude Holiday Affair holds enough charm and entertainment to be a bigger Christmas feature than its current minority status. It certainly is worth a view if you're seeking alternatives from the overexposed classics guaranteed to be screened this year.

This movie is a must see every Christmas. It's charm is due in large part to actor Gordon Gebert, who plays Timmy Ennis. There are movies that are good, but you just hate the kids. For example Mitchum's son in River of No Return or the boy in Last Action Hero. Were they the producer's nephews? You just don't like them and it taints the movie. Gebert however is as lovable as Peter Billingsly (Ralphie) in Christmas Story.While Mitchum was terrific as always, I was also very impressed with Wendell Corey's performance and wry wit. His "Is that so?" scene with Mitchum was genius.The writing was excellent. If I had to find a flaw with this film, it would have to be the directors reluctance for retakes. There were scenes where Timmy did flub a line or two, but were left in.

Looking back at my record in 2010,and seeing that I only watched one Christmas-themed film that year (the likable Elf),I felt that for this year,I should really try to get hold of some "X-mas classics" which I had never seen before.Whilst searching on Amazon Uk for some of the more well known titles,I suddenly got a rec from the site for a film that I had never heard of before.Checking the cast,and seeing that "The King of Noir" and Norman Bates favourite Blonde had starring roles in the film,made this sound like the perfect start for my Christmas classics viewings.The plot:Struggleing to makes ends meet for her and her young son,(who both have also been trying to deal with the death of their husband/father in the war)Connie Ennis decides to become a "comparison shopper" for a big company,with her main job being to buy one of a rival stores "big sellers",and return it the very next day,after the "comparison shopper" company has gotten all of the details about the item.For her latest fact-finding mission,Connie has been told to pick up a toy train set,which has become one of The must-have toys of the year.Interupting the stores toy seller Steve Mason from his latest demo of the toy.Ennis quickly makes a run for it after getting the set,due to Mason getting suspicious of her.Arriving home,Connie tries and fails from hiding the set from her son Timmy,whose sneaky look at the toy,starts to get him excited in receiving it as his main Christmas present.After getting a refund for the toy,Ennis is shocked when she runs into Steve Mason,and discovers that he has been fired due to refunding her!Wanting to cheer him up a little,Connie spends the whole day with Steve,until they are separated by rush hour traffic.Returning home,Ennis starts to plan spending Christmas with her son,and her long-term patient boyfriend Carl Davis. With Davis and Timmy each ready to take Connie out for a special meal,they are all stopped in their tracks when Steve Mason suddenly appears.Arriving with some items he had picked up with Ennis,Steve starts to relax,and attempts to introduce himself to her son Timmy and her now very uneasy boyfriend Carl. View on the film:When checking the DVD case to this film,my initial excitement for the movie experienced a bit of a drop,when I discovered that along with Mitchum and Leigh the film featured that old chestnut the slowly kills off any TV Comedy series:a kid.Impressively,child actor Gordon Gebert avoids most of those pit falls by making the character pretty balanced,with Timmy never completely becoming an "aw shucks" kid,or an annoying little brat,but instead walking that fine line of being in between.Looking at the rest of the strong cast,Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh show a very natural chemistry,with the scenes of Leigh and Mitchum spending the day together,allowing for Robert to show a pretty under rated comedic side with his very good dialogue delivery.Although Leigh and Mitchum do take centre stage in the film,Wendell Corey (who,like Leigh would work with director Alfred Hitchcock on the movie Rear Window and an episode of Hitchcocks TV show)is able to steal some of the films best scenes thanks to performing Connie's ambitious lawyer boyfriend role with a real relish.Whilst the cast do their best to cover up the cracks in Isobel "This Could Be The Night" Lennart's screenplay,some of the 'cracks' in the film are sadly left open,with Connie's job of being a "comparison shopper" for a company not having even the smallest appearance of someone from the company who she works for. (which could have been a nice little role for a character actor)And with the second half of the film hinting that the life of Mitchum's character is more troubled then it originally seemed (such as him being homeless),the film sadly leaves most of that mood behind,with the final moments of the film being a chase to a train station. Final view on the film:A very enjoyable,flawed Christmas Comedy-Drama,with great performances from the whole cast.