The Long, Long Trailer
September 5th 2008 23:20
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The Long, Long Trailer is a feature film made by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz during the height of their success in their classic TV sitcom, I Love Lucy.
The basic plot is that Tacy Collins (Lucille Ball) and Nicholas ‘Nicky’ Carlos Collini (Desi Arnaz) are engaged to be married. Although Nicky wants to use their savings as a down payment on a house, Tacy wants instead to purchase a trailer home, since Nicky’s job has him spending a lot of time on the road, and this way she could cook, and clean for him. Nicky gives in, they purchase a trailer home, get married, and begin life on the road.
They quickly find that the interior of a moving trailer is ideal for tossing a Caesar salad - and everything else. That backing up their 40-foot, three-ton home is only next to impossible. And that trailer-park folks are neighborly sorts who turn the lovebirds’ rig into the wrong, wrong trailer by slipping Tacy a sleeping pill, and crashing the wedding night.
Of course, that’s when life gets interesting. Between learning how to drive a car with this enormous trailer towed behind him, and Lucy’s directions, stresses build - but all ends happily ever after.
I MADE my kids watch this when they were younger, and it turned them into lifelong Lucy & Desi FANS!
Yes it is a bit cheesy, and it doesn't have all the Hollywood smoke and mirrors, but The Long, Long Trailer is a great family flic!
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