![]() Nevertheless, Clark held on to his ambition to bring Shepherd’s stories to the screen, and, in 1981, he directed Porky’s. For years Clark tried to find a studio to finance the film. At the time, he was a journeyman director who specialized in low-budget B movies. “My date was not happy,” Clark said, but he knew right away he wanted to make a movie out of the stories, many of which first appeared in Playboy magazine and were collected in Shepherd’s 1966 book, “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash.”Ĭlark’s adaptation, however, didn’t happen overnight. Clark wound up driving around the block for almost an hour, glued to the radio until the program was over. In the late 1960s, “A Christmas Story” director Bob Clark was driving to a date’s house when he happened upon a broadcast of radio personality and writer Jean Shepherd’s recollections of growing up in Indiana in the late ’30s and early ’40s. One of the most beloved holiday movies largely owes its existence to an infamous, unabashedly crude teen comedy. The movie “A Christmas Story” might never have been made had it not been for another, decidedly less reputable comedic creature – “Porky’s.” That’s right. Over the years, this modest little movie has grown into a Yuletide perennial. ![]() ![]() The movie A Christmas Story is arguably one of America’s favorite holiday films. ![]()
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