When the four of them arrive they find all the tourists have left due to the lack of snow and unseasonably warm weather. The girls invite Bob and Phil to join them in Vermont for Christmas where they are booked to perform. They go and watch two singing sisters - Betty (Clooney) and Judy (Vera-Ellen) - at a nightclub after a tip off.
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And I can’t deny it: Santa Claus is one seriously lavish movie (never a bad thing)."Īrmy buddies Bob (Crosby) and Phil (Kaye) team up as a musical double act after World War II and make it big. James King says: "Surprised to see this one do so well but perhaps it’s another reminder that Christmas films often need time for us to really fall in love with them.
They made offers to Dustin Hoffman, Burt Reynolds and Johnny Carson - all of whom, for one reason or another, also turned the part down, before it was offered to John Lithgow who made the role his own.
#Good christmas movies Patch#
In a misguided bid to get back into Santa’s good books, Patch unknowingly threatens the fate of Christmas by taking a job at a failing toy company run by a scheming businessman named B.Z (Lithgow).ĭid you know? For the role of B.Z., the producers originally offered the part to Harrison Ford who turned them down. When the toys Patch has made fall apart on Christmas Day, the elf flees the North Pole and heads to New York City. One night they are lost in a blizzard, are saved by elves and taken to the North Pole where the woodcarver fulfills his destiny to become Santa Claus.įast forward to the 20th century where Santa Claus has become overwhelmed by his workload and enlists the help of an assistant: an inventive and ambitious elf named Patch (Moore). A woodcarver named Claus (Huddleston), delivers toys with his wife Anya to the village children. This Santa origin story pulls out all the stops and has become a cult classic. Great to see this sneak into our Top 12." James King says: "The legendary Alistair Sim was a character actor without equal and his ghoulish Scrooge is still the benchmark by which all others should be measured. it was supposed to be shown as part of the Radio City Music Hall’s Christmas attraction but theatre management decided the film was too grim and not suitable for families! You’ll see plenty of old-school familiar faces in this as well: George Cole, Hattie Jacques, Patrick Macnee and Michael Hordern all turn up.ĭid you know? The film was released under the name ‘A Christmas Carol’ in the U.S. Adapted from the Charles Dickens story by Noel Langley, who also co-wrote The Wizard of Oz movie, and directed by Brian Desmond Hurst, the most prolific Irish film-maker of the 20th century. This telling of A Christmas Carol gives an expanded warts and all view on why and how Scrooge has become the man he is when the spirits visit. Miserly banker, Ebeneezer Scrooge (Sim) is shown the error of his ways and the true meaning of Christmas Spirit by the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
A deliciously sinister adaptation of the Christmas classic tale.
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