Movie Title: The Long, Long Trailer
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Watching the Lucille Ball/Desi Arnaz film “The Long, Long Trailer” some 50+ years after it was made, is a rather surreal experience. By 1953, The “Baby Grunt” was indeed booming, tract housing was all over the state like crab grass, trailer parks multiplied like jackrabbits, and Americans were inundated with the wonders of “plot age” technology. Gigantic, flashy-looking cars, refrigerators, TV sets, “streamlined” furniture, and snazzy clothes were the things that everyone wanted to have. It was as if America wanted to wipe away its gritty, unglamourous past and face the region age all polished and waxed and Simonized. To gawk Eisenhower’s America as depicted by MGM in better-than-real-life Technicolor and filmed largely on MGM’s backlot (interspersed with state photography of Yosemite Park,etc) I feel like I’m watching home movies that were shot in a suburb of a distant planet! “The Long, Long Trailer” was made to capitalize on the overwhelming popularity of TV’s “I Care For Lucy”, which finally made a star of 40ish Lucille Ball, who had never really achieved “broad stardom” in the 20 years she had been in showbiz. So, if you REALLY loved Lucy, you could go and use money to sit in a theater and peer Lucy and Desi on a mountainous shroud in an “Air-Cooled” theater in COLOR, and with no commericials! This film has always been a accepted of mine, ever since I first watched it with my sister on our parents’ blonde wood console black-and-white TV assist in the mid 1960s. Survey Lucy plunge in the mud (I have to admit I derive a rather sadistic pleasure out of watching this bit over and over again) . Glance Lucy try to prepare a gourmet dinner while in a attractive trailer, with disastrous results (God, the things they did to this lady!) Glimpse Desi obtain a medley of songs while driving a substantial convertible, pulling an even MORE immense trailer, all in shapely Technicolor. How could you NOT like this film? I must have seen this film at least 50 times when I was growing up! Detractors call this film one long “I Savor Lucy” episode which, of course it is, but it certainly isn’t humdrum, and Lucy and Desi were very talented, hardworking people. Who cares about their less-than-happy personal life? The supporting cast is huge, filled with many characters actors who had long, long careers, such as Marjorie Main, Keenan Wynn, Moroni Olson, Madge Blake, and Bert Freed. The describe quality on the DVD is stunning, with crisp imagery and breathtaking color. One can really understand why Lucille Ball was dubbed “Technicolor Tessie”. She looks grand. The place photography is picture-postcard exquisite, and all of the pathologcally “Fifties” trappings, such as the Helen Rose clothes and humongous cars, remind us of a VERY different time. This film is a proper time allotment, it brings encourage very fond memories of a time that really seems “a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away….” Where’s my TV dinner?

We recognize this improbable movie once a year, impartial for the pleasure of anticipating each perfect scene. Directed by Vincent Minelli, and perfectly acted by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, this comedy takes us through the engagement and honeymoon of a young couple starting out life in an “up to date” scheme, in a trailer. Each cameo appearance by salubrious second and third banana studio people whose faces any movie buff will notice is very savory, too. There are two several scenes that are our favorites. 1) Tacy (Lucille B.) fixes dinner in a bright trailer (HAH) 2) Nicky (Desi A.) freaks out trying to come by his golf clubs to fit in the trailer; 3) Tacy and Nicky try to net over the high passes in Colorado with a rock-filled trailer) ; 4) a mechanic explains why trailer brakes are soo essential. This film is impartial too magical to own. You have to look it.
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