| The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
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| Front Cover |
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Back Cover |
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| Movie Details |
| Director |
Vincente Minnelli |
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| Language |
English |
| Country |
USA |
| Color |
Color |
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| Plot |
| Success in that newfangled television business prompted Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz to bring their slapstick chemistry to the big screen, courtesy of a 28-foot monster of a trailer home. The Long, Long Trailer is one of those domestic nightmare movies, in which an ordinary couple has their existence upended by a new contraption: in this case, a lemon-yellow motor home. They make the mistake of towing said behemoth to Colorado, a honeymoon journey fraught with tilted axles and Lucy's ill-advised collection of large souvenir rocks. One disaster follows another, with the action rarely rising above the level of a sitcom (MGM's top director of musicals, Vincente Minnelli, is overqualified here). One notable exception: the climactic sequence, a funny-nervous crawl up an 8,000-foot mountain pass. The film was a box-office hit, proving that moviegoers would go to theaters to see a TV star's hair in its natural red color. --Robert Horton |
| Personal Details |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
27 |
| In Collection |
Yes |
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| Product Details |
| Format |
VideoCD |
| Region |
Region 1 |
| Release Date |
2004 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
2 |
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