Fandom Promo!

[crantz]

Welcome to the Fandom Promo post, everyone!

Here's where you get those eyes on your fandoms for sign ups!

Share what makes your Yuletide fandoms the shiniest and why you love them. A big part of Yuletide is how small our fandoms can be, and this is a good way to make sure other people know what gems there are out there!

Suggested form to use:

<b>FANDOM NAME</b>:
<b>WHAT MAKES IT GREAT</b>:
<b>WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional)</b>:

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[ageorwizardry]

Classic films ahoy! I was lucky enough to see all of these in a local-ish theater that regularly screens old movies, so my "availability" notes below are a bit sparse :)

FANDOM NAME: If I Had a Million (1932)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: A millionaire told he's on his deathbed doesn't want to leave his money to anyone he knows, so he decides to give a million dollars each to eight people he randomly selects from the telephone directory! You get a lot of great vignettes, plus of course a killer concept you could apply to any original characters or other setting.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Apparently available on DVD as part of this W.C. Fields Comedy Essentials Collection (DVD also available elsewhere).

FANDOM NAME: The Talk of the Town (1942)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: IT'S SO THREESOME-Y.

An ESCAPED PRISONER (Leopold Dilg, played by Cary Grant) who is ON TRIAL for MURDER (he was UNJUSTLY FRAMED!) takes shelter in the house of a woman he's loved for years... but she has just rented it out to a renowned legal professor (Michael Lightcap, played by someone not nearly as attractive as Cary Grant) who has been tapped to be the next Supreme Court justice, and urged to avoid getting involved in any sort of news or controversy on that account. How can Nora Shelley manage this situation without disaster befalling anyone? HIJINKS ENSUE. (Not least because Leopold does not seem to treat hiding for his life with anything near the amount of seriousness one would probably expect!)

The legal scholar, from an extremely unpromisingly condescending start, comes to have a deeply genuine respect for Nora, and Leopold and Michael have A LOT OF DIALOGUE about how they have never admired another man or enjoyed his company so much! And while we are no doubt meant to understand that Nora chooses Leopold in the end (after each man hilariously tries to talk up how wonderful the other one is), she kisses both of them in about the final two minutes of the movie, so I'm saying a threesome is the obvious conclusion here.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): IMDB reports it streaming on Amazon (unsure if geographic restrictions). Also available on DVD.

FANDOM NAME: The Uninvited (1944)
WHAT MAKES IT GREAT: This may be the most pleasant, good-natured group of people ever to be afflicted by a haunting. No matter what eerie or dangerous thing happens, their spirits never stay down for long! I'd love to see how they handle other genres of ~unusual phenomena~, or just to hang out with them in ordinary circumstances.
WHERE CAN I FIND IT?(optional): Available on DVD.