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After Santa Claus is arrested and jailed, a recently paroled prisoner and his young son attempt to save Christmas before it's too late.After Santa Claus is arrested and jailed, a recently paroled prisoner and his young son attempt to save Christmas before it's too late.After Santa Claus is arrested and jailed, a recently paroled prisoner and his young son attempt to save Christmas before it's too late.
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Mick Walter
- Entwhistle
- (as Michael Walter)
- Director
- Writer
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Did you know
- TriviaThe Christmas carol and pantomime scenes were filmed in Wetherby, a small market town West Yorkshire, England.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Film '72: Episode dated 2 December 2014 (2014)
- SoundtracksHere Comes Santa Claus
Performed by Bing Crosby and The Andrews Sisters
Courtesy of MCA Records, Inc.
Under license from Universal Music Operations Ltd
Written by Oakley Haldeman and Gene Autry
Published by Chester Music Ltd. trading as Campbell Connelly & Co
By kind permission of Music Sales Creative
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Not perfect, but one of the BEST X-mas tales in YEARS
Before we start our regularly schedule review, lets crate context.
In the early days of Hollywood, x-mas movies were an oddity. They were in the process of finding themselves. Films like Miracle on 34th Street 1946 and Its a Wonderful Life 1947 (offically an X-mas tale because the story takes place around X-mas) were the exception, not the rule.
Flash forward about 55 years or so and now you find that some countries (like Canada) have actually formed a cottage industry just turning out X-mas movies year after year, good story or bad, entertaining or not, just to feed the "maw" of the system. (Canada has even stooped so low as to remake a B--- version of Miracle on 34th Street 1946 ... apparently spurred on the US' horrific remake of the same film in 1994).
So, therein likes the issue. When X-mas movies become commoditized, it becomes a real challenge that break away from the homogeneous sludge that passes for holiday movies these days.
(Elf 2003 pulled it off -- wonderful and recommended).
This film is not going to win any awards, but it holds the attention and has some really marvellous comedy bits buried here and there. (The "Crazy Jimmy Claus routine is worth the whole movie.) Recommended.
In the early days of Hollywood, x-mas movies were an oddity. They were in the process of finding themselves. Films like Miracle on 34th Street 1946 and Its a Wonderful Life 1947 (offically an X-mas tale because the story takes place around X-mas) were the exception, not the rule.
Flash forward about 55 years or so and now you find that some countries (like Canada) have actually formed a cottage industry just turning out X-mas movies year after year, good story or bad, entertaining or not, just to feed the "maw" of the system. (Canada has even stooped so low as to remake a B--- version of Miracle on 34th Street 1946 ... apparently spurred on the US' horrific remake of the same film in 1994).
So, therein likes the issue. When X-mas movies become commoditized, it becomes a real challenge that break away from the homogeneous sludge that passes for holiday movies these days.
(Elf 2003 pulled it off -- wonderful and recommended).
This film is not going to win any awards, but it holds the attention and has some really marvellous comedy bits buried here and there. (The "Crazy Jimmy Claus routine is worth the whole movie.) Recommended.
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- Jan 5, 2017
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- Also known as
- Untitled Christmas Project
- Filming locations
- Wetherby, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, UK(on location)
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- Gross worldwide
- $4,798,222
- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
- Color
- Aspect ratio
- 2.35 : 1
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