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The 1980's - Movies in the Making

   






 


A Christmas Story Showing 1983

 

 


 
   


In 1983, the story of young Ralphie Parker hit the movie screens.  Ralphie was a fictional character from the mind of Jean Shepherd, whose fondest Christmas dream was of a “…two-hundred shot Red Ryder range model air rifle with a compass in the stock and this thing that tells time.”  The fact that the gun never existed (the gun described was actually a combination of the Red Ryder and an earlier gun, the Buck Jones Special) did not deter the movie production company.  In spite of repeated warnings that “…you’ll shoot your eye out!”, in the end Ralphie got his gun.  The movie was an instant box office hit and is now a cult classic that can be seen each year on television from the day following Thanksgiving through Christmas.  

 

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