The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Family Friendly
Seasonal
Event Description
Screening of this 1940 American romantic comedy film set at Christmas.
Enjoy this heart warming Christmas film shown in the atmospheric medieval Guildhall, with a roaring real fire! Buy a glass of mulled wine from our licenced bar.
The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring James Stewart, Margaret Sullavan, and Frank Morgan. The screenplay was written by Samson Raphaelson based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László. Eschewing regional politics in the years leading up to World War II, the film is about two employees at a leathergoods shop in Budapest who can barely stand each other, not realizing they are falling in love as anonymous correspondents through their letters, a plot concept revived in the 1998 film You've Got Mail starring Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
The Shop Around the Corner is ranked #28 on AFI's 100 Years...100 Passions, and is listed in Time's All-Time 100 Movies. In 1999, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
Cert U 1h 39min
Tickets £5 each
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