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I first caught the remake of “the movie “A Holiday Affair” in the mid- 1990’s. It starred Cynthia Gibbs and  the handsome David James Elliot.  Tom Irwin was in it too, whom I recognized and liked as the dad from “My So Called Life”.  So I watched this TV movie once and pretty much forgot about it.

A few years later I wondered about it again. I remembered the movie’s theme centered around a train. I kept thinking it was called “The Holiday Train” or something. I wanted to track it down and rewatch it, but I just couldn’t remember the name.

Then, last Christmas Eve as I was wrapping some last minute gifts with the TV on in the background, on came the original version of this film on TCM, starring Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh. So I watched that 1949 version that night—and  now  that I know the name of the movie, I have the 1996 version on tap to DVR this year.

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