What Classics Did You See Last Week (January 4–January 10)

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CoriSCapnSkip — 2 months ago(January 12, 2026 05:45 PM)

Magical Mystery Tour
(1967) on January 4
Westward Ho the Wagons!
(1956) on January 5
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
(2024) on January 8
The Great Locomotive Chase
(1956) on January 10
These were all rewatches except for
The Great Locomotive Chase
. I hadn't seen the beginning of
Magical Mystery Tour
previously and I hadn't seen
Westward Ho the Wagons!
in decades. I find it disgraceful that classics such as
Westward Ho the Wagons!
and
The Great Locomotive Chase
are not to be found on Disney Plus and a person must pay to watch them elsewhere.

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spiderwort — 2 months ago(January 13, 2026 03:07 PM)

The only one of these I've seen is
Magical Mystery Tour
, which I quite enjoyed back in the day.
And it's too bad you had to pay to see the others. That's incredibly frustrating, I know. But I see that
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
is on STARZ, which I have. What did you think of that one? I might give it a look, although I'm pretty overwhelmed with things to watch these days.

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CoriSCapnSkip — 2 months ago(January 13, 2026 05:50 PM)

I checked
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
out of the library so I didn't have to pay for it. It is a fantastic movie with only one flaw. It is a near exact copy of the book by Barbara Robinson, who died in 2013, so if her name was removed from the film it was not her doing, yet I have watched it twice now and not seen the book or the author credited. I wonder if I can possibly have missed this twice or if something else went on and if so what. Otherwise this is a perfect movie!

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spiderwort — 2 months ago(January 14, 2026 01:20 AM)

Thanks so much. I'll check it out. And Robinson is credited on IMDb as the author of the novel, so it's odd that she wouldn't have been credited on screen.

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CoriSCapnSkip — 2 months ago(January 14, 2026 03:16 AM)

Apparently it's in the end credits and somehow I missed it twice although I watched all the credits.

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spiderwort — 2 months ago(January 14, 2026 01:39 PM)

It's not always easy to keep up, especially when they sometimes run too fast.

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MissMargoChanning — 2 months ago(January 14, 2026 10:41 PM)

And these two…
The Uninvited and The Unseen. Gail Russell stars in both. Not bad!
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!

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spiderwort — 2 months ago(January 15, 2026 02:05 AM)

Margo, I quite enjoyed
Lifeboat
and especially
The Uninvited
, which I think is rather special.
Haven't seen
The Unseen
, but I'm a fan of Gail Russell's, so I'll keep it in mind. Thanks for the introduction.

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MissMargoChanning — 2 months ago(January 16, 2026 09:57 PM)

Haven't seen The Unseen, but I'm a fan of Gail Russell's, so I'll keep it in mind. Thanks for the introduction.
I believe that you might like it! The complete movie is on YouTube…
You asked a pretty question; I've given you the ugly answer.
Fasten Your Seatbelts….
It's Going To Be A Bumpy Night!

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spiderwort — 2 months ago(January 17, 2026 08:44 PM)

Thanks so much, Margo. I think I will like it, so I'll get to it as soon as possible (not so easy these days). It's got a good cast!