Directed by Michael Curtiz
Screenplay by Norman Krasna, Norman Panama
Director of photography: Loyal Griggs
Music by Gus Levene, Joseph J. Lilley, Van Cleave
Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger, Mary Wickes
Production:  Paramount Pictures

From late October onwards, every shopping mall cranks out the strains of Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” in one version or another. None other than the great Irving Berlin composed the music for this anti-war film – and yes, we can call it that – by director Michael Curtiz (or, according to his original Hungarian name, Mihály Kertész). Bob andPhil start up a vaudeville duet act once they get back home after the war. In the company of two lady singers, they set out to spend Christmas in Vermont, and on their way, they run into their former general, who is now an innkeeper. As Francis Ford Coppola once said, if an anti-war movie is going to have an impact, it should be light and not have any scenes that incite viewers to violence. If he’s right about that, then this film is much more anti-war than Apocalypse Now.