Darren McGavin had perfect comedic timing. The expressions on his face are worth a thousand words. I binge watched Night Stalker a while back. It's a shame that it only aired for one season.
Will never turn down a chance to learn facts about this MOVIE!! Bob Clark, thank you for this wonderful movie that to this day my wife & kids watch every time around Christmas. Amen to that
Peter Billingsley was actually given real tobacco to chew by the props guy for the Black Bart scene. However, Peter had no idea it was real tobacco, assuming it was fake, as the props guy never admitted it was real. Within 15 minutes of chewing it, he became sick and started throwing up midway through filming. When the props guy admitted to giving Peter real tobacco, director Bob Clark was understandably furious. They had to shut down filming for almost an hour so that Peter could get the rest of the tobacco out of his system, and the props team immediately went to work creating fake tobacco by using a bunch of raisins, which is ultimately what we see in the actual film.
Unlike Ralphie, my grandson LOVED the bunny suit I made him for Christmas year before last! So much so, that he wanted to wear it to the zoo on Easter :-D
More facts! Looking at the Christmas house from the street, the house on the right burnt down a few years ago but no damage to the Christmas house. The museum is across the street. In the scene in the department store waiting in line to see Santa, Randy looks off camera and smiles for a second as he looks at his real mom off set. Ralphies favorite scene was the Chinese restaurant scene.
More facts! Looking at the Christmas house from the street, the house on the right burnt down a few years ago but no damage to the Christmas house. The museum is across the street. In the scene in the department store waiting in line to see Santa, Randy looks off camera and smiles for a second as he looks at his real mom off set. Ralphies favorite scene was the Chinese restaurant scene.
I've seen this movie many times but never knew that both the director and the author made cameos in the film. I'm so glad that I now know that tidbit so I can look for it this Christmas. I always watch the movie one time only each Christmas during the 24 showing of the film. Oh yeah, and at least a few minutes of the "Yule Log" that originated on WPIX tv when I was a kid.
Your mom is very lucky.Peter is not only an actor. He has done everything in the film industry. Actor, producer, director. He has even done documentaries and a Broadway version of A Christmas story. He was an executive producer in the 2008 Iron man.And he looks very good after all those years. He hasn't changed much, he's a handsome man who managed to stay out of drugs and alcohol abuse and he's still very successful.
I first heard Shep on WOR 710 AM in NY IN 1969. I then found out that my father and grandfather listened to him. I remember sneaking out of my aunts’s house with my dad to sit in our Plymouth in the cold night and listen to him tell this story on the car radio. I continued listening to his show on WOR until it was cancelled for good in 1977.
I watched a video that said anytime you saw the curtains open in the house, it was actually filmed in the house. When they were closed, it was filmed on a sound stage.
I watched this movie for the first time like a week ago and it was so fun and charming, also no wonder I found the guy in Elf similar to Ralphie😄 can you do more Christmas movies like Arthurs Christmas or Rise of the Guardians?🎄
Ralphie was originally given real chewing tobbacco for the scene with Black Bart, but became sick from it and they had to stop filming for a couple of hours.
@@OfficialPanda339 They could NEVER get away with doing that today. However, that was the fault of the props guy, not the director. In fact, when director Bob Clark learned what the props guy had done, he was furious.
I jump with joy every time I read about how the great cinema critics disliked this movie. Good example of how tuned into America they really are. They don't know anything about movies, either.
I still want to know how they did the effect when the dad plugs in too many devices and causes the arching that blows a fuse. I legit think they just did it for real.
I feel bad for the kid going down the slide but I would have loved going down it but I think it would have been funnier if there was a trapdoor that the kids fall through XD
Yup you remembered correctly, but last year I found out that he was actually 12 when someone told me to check his birth year. Peter mentioned the wrong age in the DVD audio commentary which is where I got the fact from.
They also forgot about the scene where they were in the Chinese restaurant and chopped the duck's head off. The mom didn't know they were going to do that so her reaction was real
2:35 It shows Disney costumes from like the 60s, 70s, or 80s but it takes place in 1940 and the Disney costumes from when Disneyland opened in 1955 were weird and creepy
I think the movie A Christmas Story Christmas they should have got the original all the original actors if they can't get the original actors in a second movie they shouldn't make it
That's what I thought at first because Peter Billingsley said in the DVD audio commentary that he was 13. But when I posted the first version of this video several people pointed out to me in the comments that 13 isn 't right because he was born in 1971 and the movie was released in 1983, making him 12 at the time.
