Christmas movies...

[carlfoxmarten]

There are a number of movies my family likes watching every year around Christmas time.

The two we watch almost every year are Holiday Inn and White Christmas, both with Bing Crosby, and both have fairly similar storylines, as White Christmas is actually a remake of Holiday Inn.

So here, in no particular order, is my list of movies I'd like to watch this Christmas season:

• Holiday Inn (1942)
  Ted Hanover, Jim Hardy and Lila Dixon are partners in a three person song and dance act.
• White Christmas (1954)
  Bob Wallace and Phil Davis are a pair of ex-army singers that form a duet, with a show that's growing as fast as Phil can give Bob ideas.
• The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
  My favourite retelling of Dicken's classic tale. Classic Muppet fare, songs included.
• Ross Petty's Robin Hood Pantomime:
  Unfortunately not available on tape or disk it seems, but we managed to record it off the TV years ago back when Ross Petty Productions used to have a yearly pantomime to air on Christmas Eve. Highly entertaining, with some original jokes thrown in, too! ("Give us a smile there! Show us your teeth! ...Oh no ma'am, don't take them out!")
• Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
  A classic stop-motion animation of the story of Rudolph's beginnings.
• Santa Claus is Coming to Town (1970)
  A mailman whose route takes him all the way to the North Pole tells the story of how Santa Claus came to be.
• Mole's Christmas (1994)
  A trip home on Christmas Eve to Ratty's house takes on a twist when Mole gets wistful for his old home Mole End.
• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
  The original animated version, which actually had Dr. Seuss on the writing team for the movie. Need I say more?
• Bugs Bunny's Looney Christmas Tales (1979)
  Bugs and friends run through some Christmas themed Looney Tunes episodes.
• Robbie the Reindeer in Hooves of Fire (1999)
  Robbie is the son of Rudolph, with a nose that can find anything in the world (including posh yoghurts, even after they've been eaten, apparently) who's sent the the North Pole to learn the family trade.

Comments

[deckardcanine.livejournal.com]

Oh, I thought White Christmas was a sequel.

[carlfoxmarten]

It makes more sense (to me anyway) for it to be a remake, especially with the social norms of the day.
(it doesn't quite make sense for Ted and Jim to get married at the end of Holiday Inn just to lose their wives between movies and find new ones in White Christmas)