🎬 The Shop Around The Corner (1940) | A Christmas Classic

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I'm someone who enjoys to watch a wide variaty of movies and I certainly have a soft spot for old ones that are sees as masterpieces (~7.8+ Rating on imbd). So I like to include at least a couple each year. The Shop Around The corner is one that I have been wanting to watch for a while and it is perfectly suited during the Christmas Period. While it can be debated that this is a Cristmas Movie or not, it takes place around that time and has the Christmas Spirit. I also got to know it in a list of christmas movies. One of the good things about these older movies is that they usually stay well below 2 hours which at 99 Minutes was also the case for this one. The movie takes place on Budapest as it comes from an Hungarian play named Parfumerie” (1937).

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The Shop Around The Corner (8.4/10)

This is a Black and White movie from 1940 which stars James Stewart who I have grown to be a fan of after already watching Rear Window, A Wonderful Life, & Rope who all 3 I absolutely loved. I still have to watch Vertigo which is considered one of the best movies of all time though whoch also stars him

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He plays a store clerk of the shop called Matuschek and co and the entire movie kind of acts like a play that mainly takes place inside of the shop. He's been working there for 9 years and is considerd by his boss Mr Matuschek as his best employee and the only one who isn't a "yes-man" giving his honest opinions. The part early on about the boss asking him about the cigar boxes really gave me that spark that great movies tend to give me and I instantly knew I was watching something special which never left.

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Watching these moves of the 40s or 50s also always reenforces my belief in Bitcoin as it really shows how crazy inflation actually is especially over a longer period of time and it's only getting worse. They are talking in the movie about a couple of dollars as if it's a big amount.

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The Plot
In essence, this is somewhat of a love story movie as the main character has been writing to a women on intellectual topics and falling in love without mentioning things like how they look or what they do from work. One day a women comes to apply for a job in the store and gets hired and you guessed it, she is the one he was writing to. From what I read, the more recent movie 'You've Got Mail' with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks is insired by The Shop Around The Corner.

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Trailer

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Conclusion
I loved every second of this movie and I can see why it gets and 8/10 score on IMDB as one of the Timeless Christmas Movies. This one made me realise that all the movies that I love the most give me some kind of spark where I know at that moment that I'm watching something good and it feels amazing. This was the first and only old movie that I watched this year. In 2024 that was Rope which I also absolutely loves so I plan to watch more of them in 2026. A very solid 8.4/10 !!

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