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The Phantom of the Open Hearth is an American made-for-television family-comedy film, directed by Fred Barzyk and David R. Loxton, with a script written by Jean Shepherd. Produced by Loxton, the movie is the first installment in the Ralph Parker franchise, and is notable for influencing studio interest in A Christmas Story years later. Based on Shepherd's book, In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash and similar to all the other Parker Family movies, the film depicts fictionalized events from his real-life childhood.

The Phantom of the Open Hearth
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Directed by	Fred Barzyk David R. Loxton
Written by	Jean Shepherd
Produced by	David R. Loxton
Starring	David Elliot James Broderick Barbara Bolton Adam Goodman Jean Shepherd
Cinematography	Peter Hoving
Edited by	Dick Bartlett
Music by	Paul Taubman Joseph Raposo
Production companies	New Television Workshop WGBH Boston WNET Channel 13 New York
Distributed by	Public Broadcasting System (PBS)
Release date	December 23, 1976 (1976-12-23)
Running time	94 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Synopsis

A middle-aged Ralph Parker introduces the film, before the events of the movie flashback to the past. Set during 1950s America, high school-aged Ralph prepares for the upcoming junior-promenade dance. Every day at school he tries to overcome his shyness and ask his crush, a popular classmate named Daphne Bigelow, to the event. At home, Ralph finds himself at odds with his father and his over-involved mother. His parents are busy with their own interests: Mr. Parker once again looks forward to the arrival of a tasteless lamp shipment he won in a bowling contest, while Mrs. Parker often attends "dish night" at the local movie theater to acquire a collection of dinner dishes. Though Ralph decides to ask his geeky neighbor Wanda Hickey to the dance, he continues to wish he could win the affections of Daphne. Later with his friends and their dates, Ralph drinks alcohol excessively. The group finds themselves sick and vomiting in the bathroom stall, during the eventful night of junior prom.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]

Cast

• David Elliot as Ralph "Ralphie" Parker
  • Jean Shepherd as Ralph Parker/the Narrator
• James Broderick as Mr. Parker
• Barbara Bolton as Mrs. Parker
• Adam Goodman as Randy Parker
• Tobi Pilavin as Daphne Bigelow[7]
• Roberta Wallach as Wanda Hickey[7]

Release

The Phantom of the Open Hearth was released on December 23, 1976 during an episode of PBS's anthological television series, Visions.[7][1]

Reception

Upon release the film was met with mostly positive reception, with praise directed at the sentimental value and nostalgic look at the history, the cast's performance, as well as Shepherd's skills in storytelling. Criticism stated that the plot took itself perhaps a little too seriously.[7] Retrospective reviews give the television movie mixed reviews.[4]

Sequels

The movie was followed by a number of sequels, spawning a franchise of films, an adaptation for stage, and a television broadcast adaptation of that play. The film's first follow-up to be released, was The Great American Fourth of July and Other Disasters in 1982.[1]

Unaired television series adaptation

The film was reshot and intended to serve as the pilot episode for an ongoing series with a perspective release in 1978. Though the finished product never aired, production was completed. The production was directed by John Rich, with a script by Jean Shepherd, cinematography by Roland 'Ozzie' Smith, and editing from Dick Bartlett. Filmed with a working title the same as the 1976 film, the cast included John Shepherd, Richard Venture, Barbara Bolton, and Jean Shepherd as young Ralph "Ralphie" Parker, Mr. Parker, Mrs. Parker, and Ralph Parker/the Narrator, respectively. The series included the original introduction of the famous "Oh, fudge (but I didn't say 'fudge')!" line which was later introduced in A Christmas Story.[8][9][10][11]

References

External links

• The Phantom of the Open Hearth at IMDb

На других языках

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[de] Das Gespenst im Hochofen

Das Gespenst im Hochofen (Original: The Phantom of the Open Hearth) ist ein Film, der sowohl Elemente des Heimatfilms als auch der Satire auf die US-amerikanische Gesellschaft der 1950er-Jahre beinhaltet. Er ist Teil einer in den 1980er-Jahren fortgesetzten Serie von Fernsehfilmen, die auf den teilweise autobiografischen Kurzgeschichten des amerikanischen Autors und Erzählers Jean Parker Shepherd (* 26. Juli 1921 in Chicago, USA; † 16. Oktober 1999 in Sanibel Island, USA)[1] beruht.

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- [en] The Phantom of the Open Hearth

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