Film & TV1 min(s) read
Published 12:09 24 Dec 2020 GMT
It is December, and with Christmas around the corner, there is no doubt many of us will be sitting down in front of the fire to watch one of the most beloved Christmas movies ever made: Home Alone.
This month, Home Alone turned 30, and despite generations of fans watching the festive flick on repeat, it turns out there are some details in the movie that have gone unnoticed for years.
One of these details surrounds the black and white gangster movie little Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) watches after being abandoned by his awful family.
Called Angels With Filthy Souls the convincing mob movie provides one of Home Alone's signature lines, with gangster boss Johnny telling Snakes to "keep the change, ya filthy animal" after blowing him away with his Tommy gun.
Check out Kevin using the movie to scare away Marv:
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However, as it turns out, despite looking the part, Angels With Filthy Souls is not a real movie - and people are only just discovering this:
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One Twitter user even writes how he feels "betrayed" after learning the fact, typing: "So like... You know the movie in home alone that kevin watches with the gangster? That movie is not real.... I feel betrayed."
Per The Sun, the one-minute-20-second scene was shot in a noir style on a sound stage in an abandoned high school gymnasium in Winnetka, Illinois.
The fake film takes its name from the real 1938 gangster classic, Angels with Dirty Faces, but it was simply referred to as "the gangster film" in the Home Alone script.
Speaking to Vanity Fair, art director Dan Webster revealed: "I believe the title was decided upon only because we needed to create a label for the tape Kevin puts in the VHS player."
In the scene, gangster Johnny is played by American actor Ralph Foody.
And earlier this month we reported how some Twitter users were only just spotting an easy-to-miss key detail in the movie about how and why Kevin was left behind in the first place.
Yes, at the start of the movie, Kevin gets into a fight with his older brother, Buzz, and during their scuffle, a load of drinks are spilled, soaking the family's passports and tickets.
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Then, as Kevin's father hurries to clean the spillage with red napkins, he accidentally throws a plane ticket in the trash - and that plane ticket has 'Kevin' written on it.
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Writing alongside a snap of her television, Twitter user Nora Brown wrote on December 7:
"I have seen Home Alone probably 1 billion times, but was today years old when I realized they threw out Kevin’s plane ticket during the pizza debacle and that’s why no one figured out he was gone earlier at, like, the airport."
