Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for December 23, 2018

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    Templo S.U.D.  almost 6 years ago

    What was wrong with that post-WWII Christmas film back then?

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    Bilan  almost 6 years ago

    So Salvador Dali failed and it’s a Wonderful Life failed, but a bottle of tequila gets a quarter mill???

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    Aussie Down Under  almost 6 years ago

    It’s A Wonderful Life was on Aussie TV today. Enough said about Christmas programming .

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    Breadboard  almost 6 years ago

    Some movies are like some wines …….they taste better with age ;-)

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    tkcoker  almost 6 years ago

    As far as I am concerned “It’s a wonderful life” is still a failure. I can’t stand that movie.

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    Smokie  almost 6 years ago

    I have watched that movie every year since 1951. I am really tired of it, but, we have a tradition. Me, I say I have to bake and stay in the kitchen with some wine and a good book. I will not ruin it for the kids. Hubby loves the movie.

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    PMark  almost 6 years ago

    It flopped so bad that the studio allowed the copyright to expire; which is why it is played so often — no royalties need be paid.

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    joefearsnothing  almost 6 years ago

    I’ll bet art school wanted Dali to learn to paint realism! ;o}

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    joefearsnothing  almost 6 years ago

    Maybe that’s 24k gold on that tequilla bottle! ;o]

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    J Short  almost 6 years ago

    Unfortunately, the bottle was consumed by the son and a bunch of 16 year olds while his parents were away.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  almost 6 years ago

    Silly movie, the angel bit talking with each other in the cosmos. The rest of it’s a nice story though, with the notable and glaringly sexist exception of the notion that his girlfriend would end up a single, sad, worthless spinster if he’d not been there to marry her and make her life worthwhile.

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    sousamannd  almost 6 years ago

    Good for that art school. Dalis works are weird and are artless baloney.

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    gozar  almost 6 years ago

    The tequila was then combined with cheap, corn-syrup sweetened margarita mix and a couple cans of the local supermarket off-brand diet lemon lime soda. Drink up boys & girls.

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    Spock  almost 6 years ago

    The world’s most expensive bottle of whiskey sold for £848,750 in Edinburgh. The world’s most expensive bottle of wine sold for $500,000 in Napa Valley (a Screaming Eagle Cabernet Sauvignon 1992). As it had been a charity auction, one might consider a French Cheval-Blanc 1947 sold for $304,375 as the really most expensive wine ever sold so far.

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    DaveQuinn  almost 6 years ago

    it is in the public domain so it can be broadcast as often as they wish. No royalties to pay.

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    pearlsbs  almost 6 years ago

    According to the article in the link below, “In 1923, Dalí was suspended from the academy for criticizing his teachers and allegedly starting a riot among students over the academy’s choice of a professorship. That same year, he was arrested and briefly imprisoned in Gerona for allegedly supporting the Separatist movement, though Dalí was actually apolitical at the time (and remained so throughout most of his life). He returned to the academy in 1926, but was permanently expelled shortly before his final exams for declaring that no member of the faculty was competent enough to examine him.”

    https://www.biography.com/people/salvador-dal-40389

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    Printer  almost 6 years ago

    Love the color version we watch it every year.

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