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Willy Wonka (Gene Wilder)

THE BAKER’S WIFE SOUP TO NUTS ANIMAL CRACKERS THE GHOST AND MR CHICKEN CHICKEN RUN WILLY WONKA AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY DINNER AT EIGHT MY DINNER WITH ANDRE LE DINER DES CONS (The Dinner Game, remade as Dinner for Schmucks) And at this festive time of year I should mention the turkey Scrooge buys for Bob Cratchit’s Christmas dinner, although it is only in the MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL that Dickens’ words come true and the turkey actually IS “twice the size of Tiny Tim”

Can’t we skip straight to dessert?

BABETTE’S FEAST IF YOU COULD ONLY COOK NOTHING BUT TROUBLE (Laurel and Hardy as chefs) RATATOUILLE THE HUNDRED FOOT JOURNEY MY BIG FAT GREEK WEDDING (the family owns a restaurant)

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Santa’s village in the North Pole Bedford Falls Rick’s Cafe Americain

I couldn’t help thinking of this map shared by Kevin Murphy on the short lived MST3K spinoff “ Film Crew” which shows the location of fictional places like The Island of Misfit Toys and Margaritaville

Oz LORD OF THE RINGS’ Middle Earth Narnia

UNEXPECTED UNCLE

“Thank you very much” from SCROOGE (big production number to celebrate Scrooge’s death) Next another song that starts with T

FATHER BROWN — multiple TV series and wonderful Alec Guinness movie

Poirot— MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS DEATH ON THE NILE EVIL UNDER THE SUN and the David Suchet series

“Ascot Gavotte” from MY FAIR LADY next another song that starts with A

Sons of the Pioneers hit “Cool Water”, sung in many movies including ALONG THE NAVAJO TRAIL next another song starting with C

ELMER GANTRY TWO POPES

“Two o’clock jump” — Harry James and orchestra in SPRINGTIME IN THE ROCKIES next another big band number

Churchill’s war committee in DARKEST HOUR It seema like military justice is usually done in front of a panel, like court martials and mutiny trials….. COURT MARTIAL SERGEANT RUTLEDGE THE RACK THE COURT MARTIAL OF BILLY MITCHELL CAINE MUTINY MUTINY ON THE BOUNTY

"Father Christmas" from SCROOGE next Another song mentioning a father or mother ("dad", "mom", etc)

CITIZEN KANE BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS Ray Milland has lots of trophies in DIAL M FOR MURDER Lots of trophies in HARRY POTTER -- the House Cup, the Triwizard Cup, whole trophy cases, and the very important horcrux that is the Hufflepuff Cup

MR MONK AND THE BIG GAME —Monk is desperate to win a trophy so Natalie gets him 100 trophies for his mantle

MRS MINIVER — the Miniver rose wins a trophy

This wonderful song from THE BISHOP’S WIFE NEXT a song from your favorite Christmas movie (or 1 of them

Special shout out to the many incredible hard working stunt horses in BEN HUR’s famous chariot scene—

Here’s Roy Rogers’ horse Trigger, “The smartest horse in the movies” Here’s Gene Autry’s pal Champion The Wonder Horse Here’s Rex Allen’s horse Koko The Lone Ranger had silver But first came William S. Hart’s horse Fritz, whom he called the world’s first horse movie star

Here are some Disney horses plus many others including Cyril from THE ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD AND MR TOAD, Bullseye from TOY STORY 2, and Pecos Bill’s horse Widowmaker in MELODY TIME