Blue Umbrella Official Blue Umbrella Winter 2018 Issue | Page 14

By: Emily S.
W hite Christmas
Movie Review
?We?ll go with the old man, wherever he
wants to go, as long as he goes opposite to the
foe.? White Christmas is the heartwarming
story of two World War II veterans attempting
to remind their retired general that he is not
forgotten.
After Phil Davis saves Bob Wallace?s life
in a surprise attack in World War II, Bob is
indebted to Phil, much to Bob?s dismay. Phil
uses this advantage to get in on Bob?s fame,
and the two begin a successful producing
company.
Phil begins to wonder if he shouldn?t
have pushed Bob into all this work when his
career begins to take over Phil?s life. Phil tries
to set him up with numerous girls, claiming, ?If
you have nine kids, and only spend 5 minutes a
day with each of them, that?s 45 minutes all to
myself.?
When Wallace and Davis meet Betty and
Judy Haynes, Phil and Judy are convinced that
they have found freedom. Judy is tired of being
treated like a little child, and she knows that
Betty will never marry until she is married or
engaged.
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Bob and Phil end up in Pine Tree,
Vermont, with Betty and Judy. When
they arrive at the resort, Bob and Phil are
shocked to find their division?s old general,
General Waverley, as a landlord. Due to the lack
of snow in Vermont, business is bad. Bob
decides to attempt to get the show up to
Vermont, to try to bring in business. They use
the Haynes sisters to fill any spots where the
cast couldn?t come.
After a misunderstanding, Betty
becomes angry at Bob, thinking he?s trying to
work an angle. Judy convinces Phil that they
need to fake an engagement to try to get Betty
and Bob together. After Phil and Judy
announce their engagement, Betty leaves
Vermont for New York. When Bob learns that
the engagement was fake, he goes up to New
York to try to bring Betty back. While he?s in
New York, he airs on the Ed Harrison Show,
sending a plea to the men of the 151 division.
He wants to show General Waverley that he
was not forgotten when he retired.
After Betty sees that Bob was working no
angles, she goes back to Vermont and stars in
Wallace and Davis? show. The 151 division
surprises General Waverley, and snow falls on
Vermont.