{"id":1767,"date":"2008-12-22T00:22:58","date_gmt":"2008-12-22T07:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=1767"},"modified":"2008-12-22T09:34:08","modified_gmt":"2008-12-22T16:34:08","slug":"the-lemon-drop-kid-sidney-lanfield-1951-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?p=1767","title":{"rendered":"The Lemon Drop Kid (Sidney Lanfield, 1951): USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by <a href=\"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/?author=29\"> Byron Potau <\/a>.\u00a0 Viewed on DVD.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 0px 0px; float: left\" src=\"https:\/\/images.suite101.com\/610040_com_lemondropk.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"291\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0043733\/\" target=\"_new\"><em>The Lemon Drop Kid<\/em> <\/a> is not the film that comes to mind when people think Christmas movies, but why not.\u00a0 This Bob Hope classic is a hilarious treat anytime of the year, but why not enjoy the laughs even more during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p>When The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope), notorious for touting false information on horses at the track, brings trouble on himself when he touts false information to a woman placing a bet for gangster Moose Moran (Fred Clark).\u00a0 When the horse Moose was going to bet on comes in he figures The Kid owes him for what he would have won, $10,000.\u00a0 The Kid has until Christmas to get Moose\u2019s money and after a few false starts he thinks of a scheme involving hoods dressed up as Santa Clauses around town and asking for donations for a charity that houses old women.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, the whole show is Hope\u2019s and he carries it through with one hilarious wisecrack after another.\u00a0 For aficionados of Christmas music, this is also the film that gave us the Christmas classic \u201cSilver Bells.\u201d\u00a0 Hope not only proves he has impeccable comedic timing, but he also shows he can carry a tune.\u00a0 This is a very funny film for fans of comedy, of Bob Hope, and of Christmas.\u00a0 Go out and rent this one and have a few laughs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reviewed by Byron Potau .\u00a0 Viewed on DVD. The Lemon Drop Kid is not the film that comes to mind when people think Christmas movies, but why not.\u00a0 This Bob Hope classic is a hilarious treat anytime of the year, but why not enjoy the laughs even more during the holidays. When The Lemon Drop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dvd","category-films"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1767"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1767\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1767"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1767"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/studentfilmreviews.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1767"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}