Film director Robert Clark, best known for the holiday classic "A Christmas Story," was killed with his son in a head-on crash with a vehicle steered into the wrong lane by a drunken driver, police and the filmmaker‘s assistant said.
The two men were in an Infiniti that collided head-on with a GMC Yukon around 2:30 a.m. PDT, said Lt. Paul Vernon, a police spokesman. The driver of the other car was under the influence of alcohol and was driving without a license, Vernon said.
In Clark‘s most famous film, all 9-year-old Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle.
A school bully named Scut Farkus, a leg lamp, a freezing flagpole mishap and some four-letter defiance helped the movie become a seasonal fixture with "It‘s A Wonderful Life" and "Miracle on 34th Street."
"It‘s a tragic day for all of us who knew and loved Bob Clark," Schwartz said. "Bob was a fun-loving, jelly-roll kind of guy who will be sorely missed."
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