I love this movie - the one with Barbara Stanwyck. It was colorized when that sort of thing was popular and I know it didn't work for most movies, but it did for this one. I taped it, but it is now starting to wear out. Where can I find a colorized copy? I have looked almost everywhere. Help, Jay Dean
shareit has just been released on DVD i dont know if it is colorized but it is a great christmas movie, just ordered mine i cant wait to watch it..
shareHi,
I just came across your post on Christmas in Connecticut and wondered if you could help my wife and I out. We love this movie and have it on VCR tape. We just saw that it came out on DVD and wondered if it has Closed Captioned. If it does would you help solve a mystery for us that has been going on for about 10 years or longer. What we are dying to know is what Felix says to Elizabeth Lane when he comes to her apartment, she just gets her fur coat and Felix makes up the menu for her upcoming magazine articles. Felix begins reading the menu to her, and we would love to know what the two different dishes are that he is giving to her. We are going nuts trying to get the complete script at this point. Could you please help us out and keep us from going into the "Nut House" by being so kind as to just give us the word by word script during this point in the movie. Thank you so very much. And if it is to weird a request we will understand. Thanks
Gary and Laurie
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...oh, AbeStreet...you have NO idea how this has baffled us!! Thank you SO MUCH for taking the time to do this for us!! You started off our New Year on the right foot! Thanks again...HAPPY NEW YEAR!! ~Gary & Laurie...celebrating New Year's in CT...haha!! (Don't you just love the movie?!)
shareIs there any chance that you would share those menu items with me, too? I missed the answer, and now it's deleted. I've tried and tried to understand Felix, but haven't been successful. Thank you.
shareThe menu items are breast of gray dove, saute with peaches grenadine, no points and chicken soup with Moselle wine, no points.
shareI have it on dvd. It is not colorized, but it isclosed captioned.
shareHi Jay,
Well, there is some good news for you. There is a woman on Ebay that sells items and gives free DVD copies away of the colorized version of this movie. Her member name is: ginny_dusty36066.
She also has colorized rare films on DVD like The Bishop's Wife, It's A Wonderful Life, rare films like Yes Virginia There is a Santa Claus and The Gift Of Love: A Christmas Story etc.
Hope this helps.
Larry
Dear Larry,
Thanks for this info!!! I have been searching for the color version for years. I saw it in color once on TV and then never again. I have sent a request to the ebay seller so hope she still is able to get it!
Thanks again!
Cherie
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At Fry's, they were selling a three-pack of DVDs for about 25 dollars that had "Christmas in Connecticut", "Boy's Town", and the 1938 "Christmas Carol" in it. Other stores might be selling this multi-pack. It was such a bargain--especially when the same store was selling a DVD of "Christmas in Connecticut" for $14.99.
For those who want the DVD it is available on Amazon. At least it was last Christmas. I hope you get to see on DVD it is in b/w and has an extra short film also.
shareColorized? Oh no! I can't imagine Christmas In Connecticut and The Bishop's Wife being colorized! Mostly because I remember the early days of colorization and all the reds turned BROWN. yikes.
For those who don't have the DVDs of these movies (I do), they are both in their original glorious BLACK AND WHITE. I have both movies on DVD and VHS. They are NOT Closed Captioned.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not opposed to color, on the contrary, it would be fun to see the TRUE colors of everything in these films, but since they both were filmed, neat, clean, crisp, I enjoy the originals. Besides, back then, color wasn't as perfected as it is today and they probably would have had to digitize them and spiff them up to copy the films to DVD in recent years, as they've had to do with so many color movies and TV shows of old that faded drastically. Color doesn't always stand the test of time.
I love these movies so much, I watch them year-round, not only a Christmastime.
Directors hate colorization of their films. They created the mood and design to only work in black and white. It would be like taking that great Depression era photo of the starving mother and colorizing it. No matter how realistic it looked it wouldn't be the artist's conception of the photo. It wouldn't even be the same work of art, which is why people fight so hard to avoid having their names attached to such travesties. Artists can tell the difference even if the general public is too uneducated to know or care.
shareIt would be like taking that great Depression era photo of the starving mother and colorizing it.
My version is closed captioned. You just have to use the caption on your television, not on the disc. I love this movie. My dad gave it to me several years ago for Christmas.
shareEvidently, Warner Home Video released a colorized version in 2005. I found one source that just takes the original DVD and makes a copy for sale at about $25.00 and yes, it is closed-captioned. However sounds kind of dicey to me. If you can find a WHV 2005 version, more power to you. Since 2015 will be the 70th(!) anniversary, maybe they'll re-release it for Christmas 2015. In the meantime, Good luck!
shareI have never taken the time to watch this movie and this morning it has become a real keeper! Barbara Stanwyck is a classic anywhere and Sydney Greenstreet is so much into himself and so Sydney. It just turned into a classic!
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