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IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE
1947
Director
Roy Del Ruth
Starring
Victor Moore
Don DeFore
Gale Storm
Charles Ruggles
Ann Harding
Runtime
116 minutes
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We hope your Christmas tree is still up and those cookies are still out for Santa because it is time to discover your new favorite movie on the subject. And it is going to charm a bunch of vagrants into your home while you are on vacation, so you should probably bake more cookies.
In IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE, a vacant mansion of world’s-richest-man Michael O’Conner (Charles Ruggles) becomes a safe haven for several New Yorkers without homes. World-class-vagrant Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore) who has squatted his residence every winter, makes himself at home once again. But this year, he takes in Jim Bullock (Don DeFore), a World War II veteran evicted from his apartment by none other than Mr. O’Conner himself.
As the men make themselves at home in the empty estate, they accumulate a troupe of other down-on-their-luck Americans. When Mr. O’Conner comes home early and discovers them, he has the bright idea to dress up as a homeless man himself in order to be granted admittance into his own home– and stays in this disguise indefinitely. As the mansion’s guests spend Christmas together, they show the curmudgeon O’Conner what family is all about, caring for one another out of the goodness of their hearts in this surprisingly radical comedy. IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE manages to deliver a very thorough account of squatter’s rights worth paying attention to. Take notes!
In IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE, a vacant mansion of world’s-richest-man Michael O’Conner (Charles Ruggles) becomes a safe haven for several New Yorkers without homes. World-class-vagrant Aloysius T. McKeever (Victor Moore) who has squatted his residence every winter, makes himself at home once again. But this year, he takes in Jim Bullock (Don DeFore), a World War II veteran evicted from his apartment by none other than Mr. O’Conner himself.
As the men make themselves at home in the empty estate, they accumulate a troupe of other down-on-their-luck Americans. When Mr. O’Conner comes home early and discovers them, he has the bright idea to dress up as a homeless man himself in order to be granted admittance into his own home– and stays in this disguise indefinitely. As the mansion’s guests spend Christmas together, they show the curmudgeon O’Conner what family is all about, caring for one another out of the goodness of their hearts in this surprisingly radical comedy. IT HAPPENED ON 5TH AVENUE manages to deliver a very thorough account of squatter’s rights worth paying attention to. Take notes!