Midwest Holiday (Part I) (1952)

★★★★ · Nicer than Paris! · dan b · 2004-05-31

This is a lovely movie about a male reporter who meets a female painter while vacationing in the midwest. The painter and her father have car trouble, and when the reporter stops to help them, their car winds up rolling off the side of a hill, empty of course! The reporter volunteers to drive them around the midwest because he wants some action with the painter. We are then treated to some wonderful footage of mountains and lakes and forests, along with places of cultural interest. After the vacation, the reporter turns down a chance to move to Paris for his job because he wants to go back to…

★★★★ · Cue the violins! · Spuzz · 2003-11-09

An overlooked gem on this site (Oh they ALL are), Mr reporter type (Dale) goes on vacation and bumps into a geezer type and her daughter Connie ("Fresh!" Connie sez. After helping the geezer literally run his car off the road, Mr Reporter volunteers his car to visit the Midwest. Off they go to visit the many campgrounds (One just happened to have a kids orchestra convention going on), historical sites, and natural wonders. The dialogue sometimes is priceless.. Connie: "A place like this makes me feel a shadow of history!" Dale "Yeah I get a whale of a kick out of places like this!" So by the…

★★★★ · Nice · kc0ltv · 2006-04-23

An entertaining 1950's film about a ex-Paris-based American journalist in need of a vacation's road trip round the Midwest. Entertaining, wholesome, a bit cheesy, but that can be a good thing, can't it? A seemingly good (if not a bit sugar-coated) view of the American heartland during the period. Interestingly, produced by Standard Oil.